Francesco Stella

Depiction of the life of St. Anthony, beginning with his initial calling to the priesthood as a young Portugese nobleman, and following him as he becomes a Franciscan monk and preaches across Africa and Europe.

A Donatello award nominated short drama about the efforts of a young boy to return a stolen video camera to it's Italian owner who wishes to record a Christmas message for his daughter in the United States.

Dilemmas of life, love and family are the subject of this multiple-narrative film from Italy. The adopted son of a well-known philanthropist, Don Tommaso, wants to travel to his native Morocco to attend his sister's wedding, but he must first hurdle the barricades of Italy's immigration laws.

True story of Don Carlo Gnocchi, a priest who manages in postwar Italy, upon his return from the Russian front where he participated as military chaplain for the Alpini, to build a charity that is still active today and bears his name. Two episodes recount his life from the time he became spiritual director of the Gonzaga Institute in Milan at age 34 until his death in 1956. The miniseries is based on the biography written by Giorgio Rumi and Edoardo Bressan, Don Carlo Gnocchi, life and works of a great entrepreneur of charity, Mondadori, 2002.