The Festival, in collaboration with the mosaic artist Dusciana Bravura, awards this prize "to directors who have contributed to narrative research and experimentation, exploring new and original paths." Our itinerary, which began years ago, towards the valorization of Italian genre cinema, has seen the awarding of the Medal of Valor to cult directors such as Liliana Cavani, Manetti Bros and Roberto De Feo.
The Medal of Valor of the 2023 edition of the Ravenna Nightmare Film Fest goes to Alex Infascelli, who will accompany Kill Me If You Can, a fundamental film in this year's Contemporary section.
Alex Infascelli, born in Rome in 1967, Alex Infascelli is a director and screenwriter. Musician, he works in the United States as assistant director of videos for Kiss, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Prince, Michael Jackson. He shoots the video for Alice, a song by the Cocteau Twins included in the soundtrack of I dance alone by Bernardo Bertolucci. His first feature film dates back to 2000: the postmodern thriller Almost blue, based on the novel of the same name by Carlo Lucarelli, with which Alex won the David di Donatello, the Ciak d'oro and the Nastro d'argento as best debut director. Followed by Il serum della vanità (2003) and H2Odio (2006), Petty marital crimes (2017) and the acclaimed documentaries S Is for Stanley (2015) and My name is Francesco Totti (2020), both awarded the David di Donatello. He directed the series Killer Women and In the Name of Evil. His novel Now, here, nowhere. Now, here, nowhere is it released in 2022.
