Over more than twenty years of activity, I have taken part in numerous national and international festivals and competitions, winning awards, mentions and selections for my short films, documentaries and music videos. Here you’ll find the complete list of awards received over the years.

Highlights:

Royal Photographic Society Award 2018 — DEPICT! Festival (Bristol, UK), for Traum(A)novelle — award presented by cinematographer Seamus McGarvey (two-time Oscar nominee, BAFTA winner)

Best Short Documentary — Cinetrofa Festival Internacional de Cinema e Literatura da Trofa (Portogallo), 2014, for Come Nei Filme

Premio Alberto Manzi — “Film and Audiovisual Production” category, 2009, for La Storia di Arezzo

Premio Fausto Antonucci — Lo Spiraglio FilmFestival (Roma), 2011, for La Tinaia

Best DOC — Toyama International Film Festival (Giappone), 2014, for Come Nei Filme

Best Music Video — Southampton International Film Festival, 2017, for Mangia!

Royal Photographic Society Award, cerimonia alla Royal Society di Londra, 2018
Premio Alberto Manzi, 2009
Premiazione Raccorti Sociali 2009
Premio VideoCinema&Scuola, Pordenone 2025
Selezione Giffoni Film Festival, 2012
Best Music Video, Southampton International Film Festival, 2017
Royal Photographic Society Award, cerimonia alla Royal Society di Londra, 2018

Complete Chronological List

C’era una volta 2.0 — School short film (2025)
Classe II B, scuola media IC 4 Novembre Arezzo, progetto “Donne: tra fiabe e diritti”.

Awards:

  • Premio Focus Scuole + Moscerina d’Oro — Moscerine Film Festival, Roma 2025
  • Premio Humor — VideoCinema&Scuola, Pordenone 2025
  • Award Winner — Meet Film Festival 2026

Finalist:

  • Ariano International Film Festival 2025

Selections:

  • Scrittura e Immagine Short Film Festival 2025
  • School Experience Festival 2025
  • Cortino Film Festival 2025
  • Premio Scuole Cortintelvi 2025
  • TimeLine Film Festival 2025/2026

Gotico Scolastico — School short film (2024)

Finalist:

  • Monteatro e Dintorni d’Arte 2024/2025

Selections:

  • Festival PLAY 2024
  • Fuoricampo FilmFest 2024/2025
  • Meet Film Festival 2024/2025

Alunni Fantastici e Dove Trovarli — School short film (2024)
Classe IV A, Scuola Primaria Aldo Moro, IC Margaritone di Arezzo.

Awards:

  • Premio Scuola Primaria — Festival Gabriele Inguscio, Galatone 2024
  • Premio Città di Pordenone — VideoCinema&Scuola 2024-25

Finalist:

  • Cortino Film Festival 2024

Mentions:

  • Honorable Mention — Marano Ragazzi Spot Festival 2024

Selections:

  • School Experience Festival 2024
  • UNICA KOREA International Film Festival 2024
  • Cortisonici International Short Film Festival 2024
  • Meet Film Festival 2024/2025
  • Festival PLAY 2024
  • SCHLiNGEL International Film Festival (Germania) 2025
  • Zinetxiki Zinemaldia (Spagna) 2025
  • Cortintelvi 2025/2026
  • Periferie Animate 2026

Science Power — School short film (2024)
Classe III B, IC 4 Novembre di Arezzo, progetto “Donne in Scienza”.

Awards:

  • Premio School Days — Cortoeacapo, Mario Puzo Film Festival 2024
  • Premio Casa dello Studente Antonio Zanussi — VideoCinema&Scuola, Pordenone 2024
  • Premio ex aequo Categoria Corto Scuola — CortoDino Film Festival 2024

Finalist:

  • Meet Film Festival 2024/2025

Selections:

  • Moscerine Film Festival 2024
  • Fabriano Film Fest 2024
  • Universal Kids Film Festival, Istanbul 2025

Patente K — Documentary, co-directed with Tommaso Paolo Vezzosi (2024)
Shot entirely on smartphone by Tommaso Vezzosi, edited and co-directed by Francesco Faralli.

Awards:

  • Special Mention — Oxfam Italia Award, “Telling Inequality” category, 2024

Estate — Music video for Alessandro Fiori (2023)

Mentions:

  • Honorable Mention, Low-budget Video — Rome Music Video Awards 2023

Selections:

  • TAKT Film Fest 2023
  • Sentiero Film Factory, Lumen, Firenze 2022/2023

Il Mago di Oz — School short film (2022)
Classe III C, Scuola Primaria Aldo Moro, IC Margaritone di Arezzo.

Finalist:

  • Premio Fausto Rossano per il Pieno Diritto alla Salute, Napoli 2022

Selections:

  • Giffoni Film Festival, sezione School Experience 2022
  • Meet Film Festival 2023
  • Moscerine Film Festival 2023

Maledetto Pinocchio! — School short film (2022)
Classe III B, Scuola Primaria Aldo Moro, IC Margaritone di Arezzo.

Awards:

  • Best School Movie — Apulia Web Fest 2022
  • First Prize — Sottodiciotto Film Festival, Turin 2022
  • Best Editing — Via dei Corti, Gravina di Catania 2022
  • Premio Speciale Enrico Trucco — Marano Ragazzi Spot Festival 2022
  • Premio Scuola Primaria — Festival Gabriele Inguscio, Galatone 2024

Finalist:

  • Bugia Film Festival 2022

Selections:

  • CMS ICFF (India) 2022/2023
  • Chania Film Festival Edu (Grecia) 2023
  • Fabriano Film Fest 2023
  • Moscerine Film Festival 2023

Alice nella DAD delle Meraviglie — School short film (2022)
Classe III A, Scuola Primaria Aldo Moro, IC Margaritone di Arezzo. Part of a trilogy with Maledetto Pinocchio! and Il Mago di Oz.

Awards:

  • Best Primary School Short — COFFI Festival 2022
  • Special Mention — Sottodiciotto Film Festival di Torino 2022
  • Best Film + Audience Award — Via dei Corti, Gravina di Catania 2022
  • Best School Short — Festival Gabriele Inguscio, Galatone 2022
  • Premio Comune di Pordenone — VideoCinema&Scuola 2023
  • Focus School Award — Moscerine Film Festival, Roma 2023
  • School Days category — Cortoeacapo 2023
  • 2nd Prize, School section — Inventa un Film, Lenola 2023
  • 1st Prize, School category — Festival La Lanterna, Genova 2024
  • 1st Prize — Mazara del Vallo Film Festival 2024

Finalist:

  • Vesuvio International Movie Awards 2022
  • Cortoscuola Mauro Bolognini 2022
  • Children Cinema Awards CCA 2023
  • Inferenze Short Film Festival 2024

Selections:

  • Giffoni Film Festival 2022
  • Marano Ragazzi Spot Festival 2022
  • Lulea International Film Festival (Svezia) 2022
  • Walthamstow International Film Festival (UK) 2022/2023
  • Rieti e Sabina Film Festival 2022
  • CMS ICFF (India) 2022/2023
  • Chania Film Festival Edu (Grecia) 2023
  • CineOFF 2023
  • Mdv Meets Cinema 2023

Campiglia in Quarantena — Collective documentary (2021)
Made with the Campiglia d’Orcia ProLoco (local tourist association).

Selections:

  • Carmarthen Bay Film Festival (Galles, UK), Short Documentary 2021

Chi Sei? — School short film (2019)
PON project, Istituto Comprensivo Martiri di Civitella.

Awards:

  • Best School Movie — Apulia Web Fest 2021

Selections:

  • CortoDino Film Festival 2019
  • Cefalù Film Festival 2019
  • Under The Stars International Film Festival 2019/2020
  • Inventa un Film, Lenola 2019
  • Fuoricampo FilmFest 2020

L’Amore Sbagliato — Music video for Giacomo Rossetti (2019)

Awards:

  • Best Music Video — Procida International Film Festival 2020
  • Best Music Video — Palena Film Festival 2020
  • Award Winner — Italian Cultural Capital Festival 2020

Mentions:

  • Honorable Mention — HIIFF, Heart International Italian Film Festival 2021

Selections:

  • Corti da Sogni Antonio Ricci 2020
  • Catharsis Music Video Festival 2020
  • Canine Film Festival 2020
  • Salento International Film Festival 2020
  • COFFI Festival 2020
  • San Luis Obispo International Film Festival, California 2021
  • Garofano Rosso Film Festival 2022

Piccola Foglia di Vento — Music video for Giacomo Rossetti (2019)

Awards:

  • Best Budget Under $1.000 — Utah Music Video Awards 2019
  • Best Music Video — APEX Short & Music Video Festival, Tucson (Arizona) 2019
  • Miglior brano — CortiSonanti Film Festival 2019

Selections:

  • Pentedattilo Film Festival 2019
  • Girona Film Festival (Spagna) 2019
  • Breckenridge Film Festival, Colorado 2019
  • Militello Independent Film Fest 2019
  • CortiSonanti International Short Film Festival, Napoli 2019
  • Columbus International Film & Animation Festival 2019/2020
  • Agropoli International Film Festival 2021
  • Barcelona Indie Filmmakers Festival 2021
  • Film in Focus 2021
  • Deep Focus Film Festival, Brooklyn 2022

Traum(A)novelle — One-minute short film, shot on iPhone 6 (2018)

Awards:

  • Royal Photographic Society Award 2018 — DEPICT! Festival (Bristol, UK), £1,000 awarded by cinematographer Seamus McGarvey
  • Outstanding Achievement Award — Berlin Flash Film Festival 2018
  • Best One Minute Film — Calcutta International Cult Film Festival 2018
  • Best Italian One Minute Film — Roma Cinema Doc 2019
  • Special Mention — State Akorti 2019
  • “Shorter Short” Award — Metricamentecorto International Film Festival 2020
  • Award — Elizabethtown Film Festival, Kentucky 2020

Finalist:

  • 60 Second International Film Festival 2020

Selections:

  • Croatian One-Minute Film Festival 2018
  • Miniature Film Festival, Vancouver 2018
  • Mobile Film Festival Women’s Empowerment 2018
  • Toronto Smartphone Film Festival 2018
  • iPhone Film Festival / MoziMotion 2018
  • Small Wonders — An Exhibition of Tiny Art & Films 2018
  • Shorts@Fringe 2018
  • Nordic Star Festival 2018
  • SmartPhilm Festival 2018
  • Sapporo International Short Film Festival & Market (Giappone) 2018
  • Austin Micro Film Festival 2018
  • SHORT to the Point 2018
  • Big D Mobile Phone Fest 2018
  • Sunlight International Film Festival 2018
  • The 60 Second Film Festival 2018
  • Dallas VideoFest 2018
  • International Mobile Film Festival 2018/2019
  • Independent Days International Filmfestival 2018/2019
  • Pordenone Docs Fest / Roma Cinema Doc 2019
  • Dumbo Film Festival 2019
  • Cardora Micro-Movie Film Festival 2019/2020
  • International Exhibition of Super Short Films 2019
  • No Words International Short Film Festival 2019
  • Aurora Film Festival 2020
  • FLICKFAIR Film Festival 2021

Mangia! — Music video for Alessandro Fiori (2017)

Awards:

  • Best Music Video — Southampton International Film Festival 2017

Finalist:

  • V.i.Z. Film Fest 2021

Selections:

  • International Monthly Film Festival 2016
  • Indian Music Video Awards 2016
  • “Short Film Show” su Sky 212/Freesat 161 e Amazon Prime 2018
  • Salento International Film Festival 2017
  • The Short Film Festival 2017/2018
  • Korea International Expat Film Festival 2018
  • Palena Film Festival 2018

Sotto il bicchiere — Short film based on a text by Alessandro Gori (2016-2017)

Selections:

  • ULTRAcinema 2017
  • Firenze FilmCorti Festival 2018

Strasicura — Road safety ad (2016)

Awards:

  • 3rd Prize — Corecom Toscana, “Toscana in Spot 2016: Sicurezza Stradale”

29/6 — Short film, Istituto Comprensivo Martiri di Civitella (2015)

Awards:

  • Winner — Near Nazareth Film Festival (Israele) 2016

Selections:

  • Independent Days International Filmfestival 2015
  • ReelHeART International Film and Screenplay Festival 2015/2016
  • Speechless Film Festival 2016
  • AniFestROZAFA (Albania) 2016

Emo Formichi — Documentary, published by Polistampa (2015)

Awards:

  • I Premio Categoria Documentari — Mesola Film Corto 2017

Selections:

  • Festival Internazionale Film Spray, Firenze 2015
  • Krafta Doc International Art Making Film Festival (pre-selection)
  • TrueDoc Documentary Festival 2015/2016

Reinventarsi — Ad (2014)

Awards:

  • 1st Prize — Corecom Toscana, “Toscana in Spot 2014: Comunicare il Lavoro”

Come Nei Filme — Short documentary, Associazione Il Cenacolo Francescano (2013)

Awards:

  • 3rd Prize — Raccorti Sociali 2013
  • Award of Merit “Disability Issues” — Accolade Global Film Competition 2013-2014
  • Best DOC Short Film — Cinetrofa Festival (Portogallo) 2014
  • Best DOC — Toyama International Film Festival (Giappone) 2014

Selections:

  • Hamilton Film Festival (Canada) 2014
  • Thin Line Fest 2014
  • Vox Popular Film Festival 2015
  • FEEDBACK Under 5 Minute Film Festival 2015
  • MHC Online Film Festival 2015
  • International Inclusive Film Festival Entre Deux… Cannes (Francia) 2015
  • Festival Internazionale Film Spray, Firenze 2015
  • ReelHeART International Film and Screenplay Festival 2015/2016

Ricreare — Promotional video (2013)

Awards:

  • 1st Prize — “Ho Visto Cose Che…” Competition, Province of Arezzo 2013

Il Rintocco — Ad (2013)

Awards:

1st Prize — Corecom Toscana “40 Spot per la Toscana 2013: Communicating Social Issues”

Le Radici del Futuro — Promotional video (2012)

Awards:

  • 2nd Prize, Europe Section — Agri Culture Film Festival 2017

Cambia Musica — School short film, Istituto Piccolomini – Liceo Santa Caterina di Siena (2012)

Awards:

  • Best School Short — Inventa un Film, Lenola 2012
  • Miglior Corto di Finzione Scolastico — CineChildren International Film Festival 2013
  • Best School Fiction Short — EcoFestiValPesio 2013

La Stanza dei Bottoni — Short film, produced by Berta Film (2011)
Shot entirely in Arezzo with non-professional actors. Broadcast on Mediaset Premium Comedy Channel.

Selections:

  • Short Film Corner – Cannes Film Festival 2012
  • Giffoni Film Festival 2012
  • Corti da Sogno 2012
  • Miami Short Film Festival (USA) 2012
  • KUKI International Film Festival, Berlino 2012

Lo Switch-Off! — Ad (2011)

Awards:

  • 1st Prize Switch-Off — Corecom Toscana 2011

La Tinaia — Short documentary (2010)

Awards:

  • 1st Prize — Raccorti Sociali 2010
  • Fausto Antonucci Award — Festival Lo Spiraglio, Roma 2011
  • Best Short Documentary — Festival Corto Castiglionese 2011
  • Award for All the Arts — Fondazione Elisabetta e Mariachiara Casini Onlus 2013

Affollata Solitudine — Social short film (2009)

Awards:

  • 2nd Prize — Raccorti Sociali 2009
  • Best Soundtrack — Raccorti Sociali 2009
  • Best Editing — Valpolicella Film Festival 2009

La Storia di Arezzo — School video (2009)

Awards:

  • Premio Alberto Manzi, sezione “Produzione Cinematografica e Audiovisiva” 2009
  • Premio Provincia di Pordenone — VideoCinema&Scuola 2009

 

 

Personal and Professional Recognitions

  • Finalist — Premio Cambiamenti 2024, Confartigianato Siena, “innovative thinking in new Italian businesses” category
  • Festival jury member: Arno Stream Fest (Firenze Film, 2014, jury alongside actress Giusi Merli); Big Screen LABA, Florence 2024
  • Tutor for the “Corto in corso” educational project — Liceo delle Scienze Umane, Siena