Pietro Albì
Pietro Albì, pen-name for Pietro Albino Di Pasquale, is a screenwriter and writer born in Canzano, in the province of Teramo, Abruzzo, in 1979. After his studies at the free school of Cinema Azzurro Scipioni by Silvano Agosti in Rome, he writes texts for theatre, film and television and works on the scripts of short films, documentaries and feature films, such as: L’Uomo Fiammifero (2009), Into Paradiso, Mozzarella Stories, Limen, Buoni a Nulla, San Valentino Stories.
He has been teaching audiovisual language and writing education courses in schools of all levels for about 20 years.
Farfariel. The book of Micù is his first novel. Presented in December 2018 at the Fair of Small and Medium Publishing Più Libri Più Liberi in Rome, it was adopted as a reading book in several schools in Italy. It has been the subject of two video review competitions for children in secondary schools in Italy, supported by uovonero and by the Itaca Association.
In 2019 Farfariel won the Lago Gerundo Prize, was shortlisted at the Holden Prize and the Lussu Prize, and had the special mention at the Quality Micro-publishing Prize.
In September 2022 it will be released in the United States by Restless Books. Meanwhile, you can read an excerpt published on World Without Borders.
Filmography for Italy
https://www.cinemaitaliano.info/pers/018875/pietro-albino-di-pasquale.html+
International Filmography
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3209301/
Feature Films
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27uomo_fiammifero
https://www.cnvf.it/film/into-paradiso/
https://www.cinematografo.it/cinedatabase/cast/pietro-albino-di-pasquale/281124/
FARFARIEL, The Book of Micù
Original title “Farfariel – Il Libro di Micù”
180 pages hard cover
14 x 20,5 cm – 2 colour Pantone
Farfariel is a weird bildungsroman for young adults.
Micù is a pre-teen with a physical disability born before World War II in the poor but magical atmosphere of rural southern Italy. He is trying to grow up despite his own difficulties, the prejudices of the villagers and a spiteful demon who has the power to interfere with the story and its writer… In fact Farfariel, unhappy about the way the writer is telling the story, edits and corrects the book with his red pen!
SKRAMP JACK AND THE CHRISTMAS COMPASS
(Uovonero, 2024)
17 x 22 cm
320 pages with bw illustration
age 8+
What if Christmas was not what you have always been told? And if Santa Clause’s Elves (the ones who deliver gifts to good kids) weren’t in fact all that good? And if the Skramp (the ones who deliver nightmares to bad kids) weren’t as bad as the stories say? Jack is tired of delivering nightmares and has a plan to change that. But he’ll have to deal with Santa Claus himself. It doesn’t matter if you feel more like an Elf or a Skramp, as long as you let yourself be swept away on the journey to search for the true meaning of Christmas.
Pietro Albì, He usually writes for theatre, film and television and teaches creative writing to students. In 2018 he published his first novel, Farfariel, with uovonero (rights sold in USA).
