Giona A. Nazzaro

Giona A. Nazzaro (born 1 June 1965 in Zurich, Switzerland) is the Artistic Director of the Locarno Film Festival.[1]

Giona A. Nazzaro at the GranRex in Locarno

He is also the General Delegate of the Venice International Film Critics’ Week.[2] and a member of the selection committee at the International Film Festival Rotterdam[3] and he collaborates with the Locarno Film Festival[4] and the Visions du Réel Nyon.[5] He is a board member of the European Film Awards.[6] He was named the artistic director of the Locarno Film Festival in November 2020 after the resignation of Lili Hinstin.[7]

A member of the Union of Italian Film Critics (SNCCI) Nazzaro is a regular contributor to the Italian newspaper Il Manifesto[8] and the bymonthly magazine MicroMega.

He is the author of several books on cinema: Il cinema di Hong Kong – Spade, kung fu, pistole, fantasmi (Le mani, 1997),[9] John Woo – La nuova leggenda del cinema d'azione (Castelvecchi, 2000);[10] Il dizionario dei film di Hong Kong (Universitaria Editrice, 2005),[11] Action – Forme di un transgenere cinematografico (Le mani, 2000)[12] and Il conflitto delle idee. Al cinema con MicroMega (Bietti, 2014).[13] Nazzaro is also the author of the novel A Mon Dragone c'è il Diavolo (Perdisa Pop, 2010).[14]