Born in 1991, Savino Carbone is a filmmaker and photographer. After a degree in philosophy, he studied photojournalism with Manoocher Deghati and documentary cinema. His works have been published on British Journal of Photography, National Geographic Italia, Internazionale and others and have received several awards. In 2019, his debut movie Libertà has been sponsored by Amnesty International and awarded with the jury prize during the 34th Milan MIX Festival and screening in over fifty film festival worldwide and on several film platform, such as Rai Cinema and Sky. The same year he has directed La frontiera. Sui luoghi di Alessandro Leogrande a long documentary movie on the life and work of italian writer Alessandro Leogrande. In 2020 he joined photography group “Arcipelago 19” to document social consequence of Covid-19 pandemic. The work of the collective has been showcased at Photolux Festival in Lucca. In 2021 he worked with italian Minister of Labour to document the agricoltural exploitation in South Italy. In the last years he has been working on a long term photo project on Iraq’s Shia politics communities after the end of Saddam Hussein regime and ISIL war, funded by SIAE and Italian Ministry of Culture.
He is currently pursuing a PhD in Aesthetics at the University of Bari (Italy).
savinocarbone[at]gmail.com
[+39] 379 123 6269 also on WhatsApp
awards
2025 “Michele Campione” Journalism Prize, Bari
2021 Best director Tulipani di Seta Nera International Festival, Rome
2021 “Armando Ceste” Prize Lavori in Corto Festival, Turin
2020 Jury Prize Mix LGBTQ+ Festival, Milan
2019 “Michele Campione” Journalism Prize, Bari
2016 “Michele Campione” Journalism Prize, Bari
exhibition
2024 Non scherzare con la corda del boia, Castello Angioino, Mola di Bari (Italy)
2021 L’inizio del futuro, Photolux Festival, Villa Bottini Lucca (Italy)
film festival
2022 Porte aperte - Università di Verona (Italy)
2022 Retrospectiva Art200 (Romania)
2022 Le giornate del rifugiato (Italy)
2022 Festival Internacional de Cine de la Noviolencia Activa (Spain)
2022 Balkan Can Kino Short Film Fest (Greece)
2021 Festival Internacional de Cine Africano de Argentina (Argentina)
2021 Festival PolÍtica (Portugal)
2021 Massimadi Montréal - Festival des Films et des Arts LGBTQ Afro (Canada)
2021 MIX Mexico Film Festival (Mexico)
2021 Ljubljana LGBT Film Festival (Slovenia)
2021 Human of Film Festival (Netherlands)
2021 Festa di Cinema del Reale (Italy)
2021 Thessaloniki International G.L.A.D. Film Festival (Greece)
2021 Festival Internazionale Tulipani di Seta Nera (Italy)
2021 Merlinka International Queer Film Festival (Serbia)
2021 Atlanta Black Pride Film Festival (USA)
2021 Fancinegay - Festival Internacional de Cine LGBT de Extremadura (Spain)
2021 Festival de Cine Lesbigaytrans (Paraguay)
2021 FiccPaz - Festival Internacional de Cine para una Cultura de Paz (Mexico)
2021 FilmOptico - Visual Art and Film Festival (Brasil)
2021 Sanfici - Santander Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente (Colombia)
2021 Lavori in Corto/Associazione Nazionale Museo del Cinema (Italy)
2021 Costaiblea Film Festival/Scicli Film Festival (Italy)
2021 Q.Pido - Treviso Equality Film Festival/Sole Luna Doc (Italy)
2021 RiFilm - Resistenze (Italy)
2021 Festival Internacional de Cine Austral (Argentina)
2021 Persona Festival (Italy)
2021 Terre da Film Festival (Italy)
2021 ART200 - Festivalul Internațional de Film Queer (Romania)
2021 MAX Diversity Film Festival (UK)
2021 Kolkata International Short Film Festival (India)
2021 Kashish Mumbai International Queer Film Festival (India)
2021 Out and Loud International Queer Film Festival (India)
2020 Festival MIX Milano (Italy)
2020 LesGaiCineMad - Festival Internacional de Cine Gay y Lesbico de Madrid (Spain)
2020 Pärnu International Documentary Film Festival (Estonia)
2020 International Queer & Migrant Film Festival (Netherlands)
2020 Reel Q LGBTQ+ Pittsburgh Film Festival (USA)
2020 Macau International Short Film Festival - SIC MISFF (Macau)
2020 Social World Film Festival (Italy)
2020 Omovies (Italy)
2020 Boyohboy Film Festival (France)
2020 Meihodo International Youth Visual Media Festival (Japan)
2020 NIFF London (UK)
2020 Independent Film Festival of Chennai (India)
2020 LGBT+ Louisiana Film Festival (USA)
2020 Festa del Cinema in Libertà (Italy)
2020 HillTop FIlm Festival of Diversity and Inclusion (USA)