Francesca Staasch

Francesca is an dir­ect­or and scriptwriter, gradu­ated at the Lon­don Film School, res­id­ent Artist at La Cité Inter­na­tionale Des Arts in Par­is and alumni of the 1st edi­tion of Ber­linale Tal­ents. Stud­ied with Robert McK­ee, Ken Dancy­ger, Mike Leigh, Abbas Kiarostami, amongst oth­ers and worked on a vast array of audi­ovisu­al formats (web/​installations/​pop promos/​short films) before writ­ing and dir­ect­ing HAPPY DAYS MOTEL a fea­ture film for the web pro­duced by RaiCinema (2013). Worked for RAI and BBC (TV) dir­ec­ted The Zedef Chron­icles, a web-series cre­ated by the Itali­an celebrity Fed­ez (2014).

Cur­rently optioned to dir­ect her com­edy TV series with Groen­land­ia and a fea­ture film with Ros­am­ont, plus short films as proof of con­cepts with FadeOut and Kahuna Film. Her latest short film IN THE BOX premiered at the 61a Mostra Internazionale del Nuovo Cinema di Pesaro. As a scriptwriter, she is devel­op­ing pro­jects with the Groen­land­ia Group and work­ing with Giulia Steiger­welt, Alice Fil­ippi, Laura Chios­sone, Marco Mario De Not­ar­is and Let­iz­ia La Martire.