A real voyage of discovery is not seeking new lands but having new eyes

- Marcel Proust -

Eyes behind which hides the lens, history and its narrator.

Luca Vullo was born in 1979 in Caltanissetta. His film takes light training in Bologna where he studied cinema at the Dams (Department of Art and Music Entertainment), he attended various workshops and laboratories and is working within a number of fields. Then returned to Sicily in his home town and from here the party its first trip from director-narrator with Cumu veni si cunta, the socio-anthropological story of a city of art and to fend of his people, where the eye director meets crafts street invented to advance the family and the artists marginalized by local companies that have expressed publicly their works and their malaise.

• 2009

April
"From sulfur to coal" won the First Prize at the V Festival Memories Migrants edition of Gualdo Tadino.

April
Luca Vullo takes a lesson in DAMS University in Bologna (Italy) on business and marketing film used for the production and distribution of his film "From sulfur to coal."

April
"From sulfur to coal" participate in competition at the Sicilian Film Festival IV edition of Miami and is projected at the Cinematheque, 512 Española Way in Miami Beach.

March
"From sulfur to coal" wins "to mention the Observatory of European Cinema"
European Short Film Festival - Guido Carletti Prize II edition. 2009 - Pescara - Italy

January
Luca Vullo was invited as a guest in the radio broadcast on radio Hollywood Party rai 3 conducted by the critic Tatti Sanguineti.

December
"From sulfur to coal" part in the Third Edition "Target at Work" 2008 - Rome and won a special mention.

December
Luca Vullo is invited by Se.RES to present "From sulfur to coal" in Canada at the Sicilian and Italian communities of the cities of Toronto and Windsor.

September
From sulfur to coal" participate in "EtnofilmFest" of Este (Italy) and won the award for "Best Documentary".

October
"From sulfur to coal" participate in the XV Review Documentary Award Libero Bizzarri "- San Benedetto del Tronto (Italy) and won the prize "Cineforum".

August
"From sulfur to coal" participate in the V edition Collecchio Film Festival (PR) and wins the first prize "Men: Chronicles and memories"

July
"From sulfur to coal" participate in the Flower Film Festival Spello (PG) and won the first prize
Emerging Authors "Silver Flower".

June
"From sulfur to coal" won the second prize at the "Roberto Gavioli" Brescia attended by Gian Piero Brunetta.
The documentary by Luca Vullo, as stated by the same Brunetta, "can make a real contribution to a cognitive history, that of Italian, too often surrounded by rhetoric, clichés, omissions and removal."

May
"From sulfur to coal" won the Special Mention "long" Festival of First Film Invisibile Como, Breathe-Ti.

March
Official presentation of the Cinema Arlecchino Palermo of historical and social documentary "From sulfur to coal".

• 2007

September

The Sicilian director was invited to Budapest to treat as artistic director of the film, a short overview of Italian author.
The exhibition has been included within the Festival "Kulturhid", event-Cultural Gastronomic Italy-Hungary, which took place September 21-27 in Budapest.

June

Together to Emanuela Pantano, leads a course on film and realized "Picciriddi," a short film where the actors are children, with their spontaneity and simplicity of language.
"Picciriddi" is inserted in the field of recovery and entertainment for children of two of the districts most at risk of Caltanissetta (St. Joseph and Providence).

December
“Un caruso senza nome” won first prize as best documentary at the Festival "Cortiamo" Alcamo (Italy).

November
Join together with the Sicilian Delegation to the IV International Conference of Young Sicilians held in Mendoza, Argentina, where he was presented the documentary "Cumu veni si cunta" the Sicilian community.

July
From 20 to 22/07/06 will be invited to participate as a member of the jury as an expert and director of the film festival Cortodams Montà D'Alba (Italy).

July
Bologna realizes the shooting of his first short film "The window for rent" in Luca Vullo addition to being the creator of history, will ensure the preparation of the subject and the screenplay along with Uliano Pistelli and Rossana Ghillino.
Is simultaneously started the design and the first filming of "From sulfur coal," a socio-anthropological documentary on the exploitation of the work of the Sicilian in coal mines of Belgium.

June
Luca Vullo part for Australia with the Sicilian Delegation at the World Conference of Young Sicilians, called by CRASES and SERES, held in Melbourne and then the official presentation of "Cumu veni si cunta" at the hall S. Francesco del Co.As.It. Casa Italiana in Sydney's Little Italy.

March
Start-up his cinematographic enterprise "Ondemotive"

January-May
In collaboration with musician Roberto Gallà, the Caltanissetta's director achieves the documentary "The Holy Week in Caltanissetta", sponsored by Municipality of Caltanissetta.

• 2004

October
Il 26 - 27 ottobre 2004, presso la sala del Lumiere 2 di Bologna, segue un seminario condotto da Jane Campion con la partecipazione della produttrice del film Laurie Parker dove la regista ha analizzato le fasi di realizzazione del suo ultimo film “ In the cut” .

January
Nel mese di gennaio 2004 realizza il suo sito personale www.lucavullo.it che per casualità statistica risulta essere il milionesimo domino internet italiano che ha portato l’Italia al quarto posto in Europa per numero di domini individuali.
La notizia apparsa su tutti i giornali nazionali e internazionali ha portato il regista ad avere un riconoscimento personale dal direttore del CNR di Pisa.

January
Il progetto “Cumu veni si cunta” partecipa e vince una Menzione Speciale firmata da Giampiero Solari del concorso nazionale per cortometraggi “Corto Dorico” di Ancona.

Filmography