Filmmaker and astrophotographer.
Alessia Scarso is a film director, graduated at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome.
She has worked as film editor and post-production coordinator.
Her first foray into directing fiction was with Uninstalling Love a short film selected at more than one hundred festivals around the world.
In 2015 her first full-length film Italo was released in theatres: the film tells the true and touching story of an extraordinary stray dog. The film has been shown in dozens of countries around the world.
In 2017 she produced and directed the short documentary Vasa Vasa, the story of the Passion and Resurrection of Christ told from the emotional point of view of the Madonna. After its debut in the United States, Vasa Vasa was screened in cinemas and at international film festivals.
For some years her passion for contemplation cultivated through astrophotography has seen her as a finalist in prestigious international competitions such as the Astronomy Photographer of the Year at the Royal Observatory of Greenwich in London e il Photo Nightscape Awards in Paris.
Alessia Scarso is a member of the Pictores Caeli, a group of astrophotographers known and appreciated by the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (the famous NASA).
In 2021 she sets up his first monographic exhibition, AD SIDERA Once upon a Sky
In 2025, she produced and directed the documentary De-Parting. a Story of Longing .
In 2026, her VR 360 documentary is released Ad Sidera. Once upon a Sky VR360.
