Andrea Bempensante

Who is Andrea Bempensante?

Andrea Bempensante is an Italian screenwriter and senior writer at Le Iene Show, the most successful satirical show on Italian television.

He wrote the movies Assolo, Doom and Cra-Cra which won awards at Venice Film Festival, Clermont Ferrand, Tehran, Valencia, Montreal.

In 1999 he wrote the movie 20-Venti, an on the road movie about a TV journalist and a pornostar. The whole plot is divided into twenty episodes, one for each and every cigarette smoked from the same 20 pack. The film was critically acclaimed, premiered at Berlin International Film Festival and won awards at Brooklyn Film Festival, Annecy and others international festivals. In 2000 the movie won best feature film of the year by Duel magazine.

In 2001 he wrote the movie A Farewell to Beat, in which Fernanda Pivano, the most famous Italian translator and critic, meets the greatest living American writers like Bret Easton Ellis, Jay McInerney, Barry Gifford and Lawrence Ferlinghetti to narrate the amazing adventure of the Beat Generation.

In 2001 he joined Le Iene, one of the most innovative and successful satirical show of Italian television and wrote many comedy bits about social issues.