Valentina Zucco Pedicini was born in Brindisi in 1978. At the age of eighteen she moved to Rome, where she studied Philology and Italian Linguistics, completing her academic work with a research project on the Apulian dialect in contemporary cinema.
She later attended the Zelig International School of Documentary, where she graduated with honors in Directing. Her documentaries have been selected for numerous national and international film festivals.
Pedicini received a scholarship in Belgrade under the mentorship of director Milcho Manchevski, where she began developing her film Dal Profondo. The project was later selected for the IDFA Academy and the Berlinale Talent Campus, and won the Premio Solinas 2012 – Documentary for Cinema.
Dal Profondo is her first feature-length film, following her earlier works My Marlboro City (2010, 50’), Mio sovversivo Amore (2009, 22’30’’), and Pater Noster (2008, 18’35’’).
