Stefano Tealdi
SteFilm International (IT)

Producer, director and tutor. Born in South Africa he established Stefilm in Turin, Italy, where he develops, produces or directs documentaries, doc series and feature-length dramas. 

Recently produced films: A Bastard and Pinochet’s Legacy by Pepe Rovano (Special Mention, Sanfic 2023); Amor by Virginia Eleuteri Serpieri (80 Mostra del Cinema di Venezia and IDFA Luminous 2023); Snajka: A Diary of Expectations by Tea Vidović Dalipi (Human Rights Day – Sarajevo FF 2023); Rispet feature fiction film by Cecilia Bozza Wolf (Bolzano, Trento and Sestri Levante film festivals 2023). When We Were Bullies by Jay Rosenblatt (short doc, Academy Award nomination 2022). Exemplary Behaviour (Golden Dove DOK Leipzig, FIPRESCI and Interreligious Award 2019); My Home, in Libya (Locarno Film festival, DOK Leipzig, Chicago Int. Film Festival 2018, Premio Corso Salani - Trieste FF 2019), Wonderful Losers. A different world (Best doc Warsaw FF 2017, Trieste FF 2018 and Academy Awards candidate 2019); The Strange Sound of Happiness (special mention Next Masters DOKLeipzig 2017, Terra di Siena – Premio della Critica, Special mention In-Edit, Barcelona 2018). He tutors for Biennale Cinema College Venice, Amman Film Industry, Attagirl, Cannes Docs, Documentary Campus, ESoDoc, La Fabrique Cinémas - Institute Francais, Factory, Films de 3 Continents – Produire au Sud, Imagination – Arab Film Scriptwriting, Jump In – Poitiers FF, Ouga Film Lab, Red Sea Lodge, TFL-Torino Film Lab, Scuola Holden, ZELIG Film School.