Marco Bellocchio is a director, screenwriter and producer. After his studies at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome, he debuted behind the camera in 1965 at the young age of 26 with Fists in the Pocket, presented at the Locarno Festival. He won the Jury Prize at the 1967 Venice Film Festival for China is Near. In 1969 he directed the segment Discutiamo, discutiamo for the film Love and Anger, which also featured work by Bertolucci, Lizzani, Pasolini and Godard. His most famous films include: In the Name of the Father (1972); Slap the Monster on Page One (1972); Victory March (1976); Devil in the Flesh (1986); My Mother’s Smile (2002); Good morning, Night (2003); and Sweet Dreams (2016). In 1995, he established a workshop for directors and actors in Bobbio, his birthplace: Farecinema- Incontro con gli autori, and at the same time founded the Bobbio Film Festival. He was awarded the Career Golden Lion at the 2011 Venice Film Festival.