Fabio Grassadonia

Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza are both Sicilian writer-directors. They worked for a long time as writers and script consultants for Italian production companies Filmauro and Fandango. In 2004 they wrote for Fandango the musical comedy Ogni volta che te ne vai, set in the world of dance halls along the Romagna coast. They still work as freelance script development consultants, collaborating with a few European workshops, such as the Berlinale Residency, Nisi Masa ESP, Torino FilmLab. Their debut as directors was in 2010 with the short film Rita, presented in more than one hundred international film festivals (Rotterdam, Edinburgh, Chicago, Brooklyn, Angers, Abu Dhabi, Toronto, Aspen, among others), winning many awards. Salvo is their first feature film.