Alessandra Piccione

Alessandra Piccione is an award-winning Italian Canadian screenwriter, known for her work on the movie, Looking for Angelina. She completed her B.A. at the University of Toronto, and her Master of Arts degree in literature at the University of Victoria, BC.

Piccione became interested with the history of Angelina Napolitano after meeting her co-writer, Frank Canino. Together, Piccione and Canino wrote the screenplay for Looking for Angelina as a poignant re-telling of a then little known episode in Canadian history. The film was released in 2006.[1]

She produced the award-winning Over a Small Cup of Coffee, which premiered in Los Angeles in April 2001 and at the Toronto Italian Film Festival in June 2001.[2] She wrote and produced the documentary Going to the Movies, as well as the film Il Bagno (The Bath), and the short Commedia for BRAVO!.[3][4] Both films premiered at the Toronto Italian Film Festival.[5] In 2011 she wrote and produced the short film Serena DeBergerac. In 2012 she wrote and produced, The Fortune Cookie and it won a Best in Shorts Award [6] and in 2014 she produced En Plein Air, which showcased at Nuit Blanche in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.[7]

She co-wrote, The Reunion with Frank Canino and won the best screenplay award at the WILDSound International Screenplay Festival in Toronto, Canada.[8]

In 2015 Piccione wrote, The Colossal Failure of the Modern Relationship, a comedy/drama shot entirely in Niagara's wine country. Starring Krista Bridges (Heroes Reborn), Enrico Colantoni (Flashpoint, Just Shoot Me) and David Cubitt (Traders, Medium).[9] The film had its world premiere at the Niagara Integrated Film Festival;[10] its western Canada premiere at the Whistler Film Festival [11] and its U.S. premiere at Sonoma International Film festival 2016.[12] The film won the Castlepoint Numa Award at the ICFF festival in Toronto.[13] She works at S.N.A.P. Films Inc., formerly known as Platinum Image Film.[14]