Valerio Jalongo


Valerio Jalongo is an Italian film director and screenwriter.

Life and career

Jalongo was born in Rome. Graduated in Philosophy, he attended the Gaumont School of Cinema, founded by producer Renzo Rossellini, and also studied Cinema at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
His directorial debut came in 1983 with Juke box, an anthology film directed as well by Carlo Carlei, Daniele Luchetti, Antonello Grimaldi, and others casting Massimo Bonetti, Philippe Leroy, and Barbara De Rossi and screened at the Venice Film Festival.
In 1988, Jalongo made DreamCity, a documentary film shot in Los Angeles which won the Vittorio De Sica Prize the same year.
His first feature film was Spaghetti Slow starring Brendan Gleeson and Ivano Marescotti, shot in Dublin. In 2004, he directed Sulla mia pelle, featuring Donatella Finocchiaro and Ivan Franek.
In 2009, his documentary Di me cosa ne sai was presented at the 66th Venice International Film Festival where it received the "Federazione italiana dei circoli del cinema" Prize. The film analyzes the cinema crisis of the seventies that caused the flight of De Laurentiis, Ponti, and other big producers from Italy to United States and the related phenomena marking the gradual disappearance of Italian cinema from the international market.
His most recent feature film is La scuola è finita, starring Valeria Golino and Vincenzo Amato.
He is also a teacher.

Filmography as director