Alessandra Piccione

Who is Alessandra Piccione?

Alessandra Piccione is an award-winning Italian Canadian screenwriter, known for her work on the movie, Looking for Angelina.

Piccione became interested with the history of Angelina Napolitano after meeting her co-writer, Frank Canino, in 2002. Together, Piccione and Canino wrote the screenplay for Looking for Angelina as a poignant re-telling of a then little known episode in Canadian history.

In April 2000, she produced the award winning Over a Small Cup of Coffee for PLATINUM IMAGE FILM, which premiered in Los Angeles in April 2001 and at the Toronto Italian Film Festival in June 2001. She wrote and produced the documentary Going to the Movies, as well as the film Il Bagno, and the short Commedia for BRAVO!. Both films premiered at the Toronto Italian Film Festival.

In 2010 she co-wrote, The Reunion, with Frank Canino and won the best screenplay award at the WILDSound International Screenplay Festival in Toronto, Canada. The film is scheduled to be shot and completed in Goa, India by late 2011.

She completed her B.A. at the University of Toronto, and her Master of Arts degree in literature at the University of Victoria, BC