Massimiliano  Terzo  is  an  Italian  film  director,  author  and  screenwriter, director of documentaries,  director of prose,  producer of opera,  director of war reportage. He  has  worked  with the  great  masters  of  Italian cinema

such  as  Mario  Monicelli ,  Sergio  Leone ,  Ermanno Olmi ,  Sandro Bolchi , he received  the  first  documentary notions from Mario Soldati. His master for  the direction of photography  was  Aldo De Robertis, although at a very young  age  he  followed  training  internships  of  Giuseppe  Rotunno  and

Vittorio Storaro . He was a film operator for about twenty years.

 

He  was  born  in  Umbria,  from he was very young he casually approached cinema  during  the  filming in the EUR  district of the film " Boccaccio '70 " directed by Federico Fellini, he was a boy among the many chosen as extras. Massimiliano  Terzo  is   the  son of a pianist  mother before the war at the Teatro dell'Opera and at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo and a jeweler father, at the age of fourteen he enrolled in the State Institute of Cinematography and  Television,  subsequently continues his studies for film direction at the Centro Sperimentale  in  Rome  and  later  he  graduated in Communication Sciences.

 

In 1968 he carried out his first professional assignment as a camera operator with  freshman  ENPALS  0589764, for interviews a well-known authors and politicians.  In  the  same  year he was called by the Rai cinematographer as assistant to the camera for the episodes of comedy "La famiglia Benvenuti" with the leading actor Enrico Maria Salerno and the actress Valeria Valeri and later he was appointed as assistant camera for the shooting of the film.  "La ragazza con la pistola"  directed  by  Mario Monicelli with the actress Monica Vitti .

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In 1970 he participated  as  assistant camera during the shooting of the film 

"Giù la testa" directed by Sergio Leone.  In  the  same year he was sented by the  "Report Film"  as  a  camera  operator  to  realize a documentary in the African  continent, " The games of the children in the world ",  crossing  the Arabian  desert  with  off-road  vehicles,  he  obtains  filmed  evidence that children without any information nationally  and internationally they all play the  same  games,  like the rest of the children from other countries. Also in 1970, he  was  called from  the  Rai  for  a contract with "studio D" in Rome, receiving    the    assignment   for   numerous   journalistic   services   and subsequently  for  the  "studio Dodi"  in  Rome  he  was frequently sent for parliamentary services.  He is registered as a journalist in the Order of Lazio

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From  1968  to  1977  he  realized  a  series documentaries  and  reportages, although his passion and predisposition remained the cinema.  In the same year he replaces the director Aldo Brandoni involved in a car accident shortly before  the  making  a  series  of  documentaries for the National Review of Industrial Film, he received the assignment for the documentaries "Ceramics alive", "The boats of the holiday​", "Woodworking machines​","Pleasure craft", these  documentaries  were  presented  and  selected  at  the  XIV National Exhibition  of  Industrial  Film  in  Italy,  Massimiliano Terzo wins the Nastro d'Argento.  Also in the 70s, he was sented by the RAI external troupe for the reportage  of  the  former  Soviet  Union  for  diplomatic  meetings. 

 

Subsequently  he  was  sent  to  Thailand  on  the border with Cambodia to make a documentary on  the  conditions of Cambodian refugees fleeing the Khmer Rouge  regime  led  by  dictator  Pol  Pot.

 

During the same period he received the assignmentas as shooting operator for the following feature films "Per chi suona la campana", "Pistole e pane",

"Percorsi  sacri",  "Sculture  Moderne",  the   medium-length  film  for  the sculptors Nino Franchina and Valeriano Trubbiani and "Terra viva",  the first three   were   presented  and  selected  at  the  XXIX  35mm  International

Exhibition of Cinematographic Art, "Sculture Moderne" was presented at the XXXI  International  Exhibition  of  Cinematographic  Art, the  film  received

positive  reviews.  "Terra viva"  was   presented  and  selected  at  the  XXX International  Film  Festival,  the  Festival  took  place  in  Salerno, the film received  positive  reviews  for  the  applied  cinematographic  criteria.

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In  1978  he  was called by Rai Torino to replace the camera operator for the filming  of  the film "Bel Ami" with Corrado Pani , Veronica Lario directed by Sandro Bolchi.

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In  1980  he  got  the  job  by  the "Report Film"  to realize news reportage

on  the  Naples  earthquake.

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From 1981 to 1987 he was called by the DIFEASSIST (Ministry of Defense) to organize  numerous  events  for  the  culture  of  the  soldier.

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In 1983 he was sent to Lebanon to make documentaries on the complex war conflict,  during his career he made twenty-six documentaries. Later he was called  by  the Institute of Cinematography and Television as a teacher, after

a  year  he  gives  up  teaching  to  devote  himself  to  theater.

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In 1985  he  reopened the ancient theater "Duse" in Rome, taking care of its restructuring  and  programming  for  over  twenty  years.

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From  1985  to  1989 he produced  and  directed the direction of the works:

“The Imaginary invalid"  by  Molière,  "Six characters in search of an author"

by  Luigi  Pirandello, "The Innkeeper"  and  "The Curious Accident" by Carlo Goldoni,"Cesare and Cleopatra" by George Bernard Shaw,"The Taming of the Shrew"  by  William  Shakespeare. Subsequently  he  was  the  author  and

director  of  the  comedies "Crazy tea"  and  "Back you don't come back".

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From  1989  to  1993 he invented, organized and produced the " EURMUSE " seasons  for "Roman Summer",  the event took place between the marbles and  columns  of  the  Park  of the Museum of Roman Civilization, the only

space in the EUR managed by the Municipality of Rome. Massimiliano Terzo builds  a  horseshoe  stage  inside the Museum of Roman Civilization, with 6,000 seats, the event was particularly suitable for different types of highly cultural events,  it was the largest amphitheater in Italy,  it was suitable for opera, to prose, dance, music in general. The event organized by the director Massimiliano Terzo, at  the  age  of  forty, a  former  teacher  at  the  State Institute  of  Cinematography  and Television, director  and  founder of the "Domiziana" cooperative. On the stage of the "EURMUSE" several important personalities  were  guests  such   as  Renato  Greco ,  Massimo  Moricone,

Vittorio  Biagi , Patrizia  Salvatori,  Pino Alosa, Mauro Mosconi, Tucio Rigano, Claudia Venditti,  Giacomo Molinari,  Milena Zullo  and  many others. In the event "EURMUSE"  the  conductor Maurizio Rinaldi conducted the orchestra  in the operas "The Barber of Seville"  by  Gioachino Rossini, " Rigoletto" by Giuseppe  Verdi  directed by the actress Franca Valeri, very  fond  of  opera. Massimiliano Terzo has made "EURMUSE" an international event by making agreements  with  Japan,  Moldova,  France,  Poland  and  Russia.

 

In the winter of 1991, he was passed through the Galleria Colonna in Rome, today Galleria Sordi, he decided to propose to the Municipality  of  Rome a symphonic concert during the Christmas season, despite the skepticism of the  cultural  office  of  the  Municipality  of  Rome,  because  of  the  cold climate  the  Municipality did not consider adequate a symphony orchestra, Massimiliano  Terzo  obtained  permits  and  for three days the symphonic concert  took  place, the  event  repeated  the  following year with a opera

concert. Also  in  1991 he was sent for the making of documentaries on the Serbian-Croatian  ethnic  war  conflict  and  later for  the  Serbian-Bosnian

ethnic   war   conflict,   the    documentaries   made   were   disseminated internationally.

 

From 1994 to 1998 Massimiliano Terzo was nominated in the eighth cinema review commission  at  the time  as  Presidency of the Council of Ministers (former Ministry of Tourism and Entertainment) he represented the directors

 

 

Since 2003  he  has  been  the  founder and editor of the Bosal Newspaper magazine.

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Massimiliano Terzo  has  been very sensitized by the experiences in the war zones towards those disabled, he is the creator and promoter of the Therapy Theater,  as  a supportive therapy that is based on communicative principles included in the theater  and  for  the different forms of psychic pathologies with  an  involvement  controlled by the communicative expressive method that  spontaneously  induces  the person suffering from psychic disorder to isolate  the  disorder  itself. Subsequently  he  was  called by the P.R.A.P. of

the  Ministry  of  Grace and Justice for the "Project Horizon", a study for the therapeutic  application   of   the   recovery  of  those  that  are  in  prison,

the project includes training  and  professional and social insertion through artistic training, due  to  lack  of  time, he does not take part in the project although   he   is   the  author.  Massimiliano  Terzo  founds  a  non-profit organization  (O.N.L.U.S.)  for  hippotherapy .

 

In 2006 - 2007 he was called to the United States for two films of American production, he  was  responsible  for  directing  the  second  units.

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In  2014  he  founded  the  Cinema and TV Academy  based  in  Rome in the Cinecittà district, a training structure that applies study and research mainly for   the   cinema,  opens   the   new   program  for  the  training  of  new

professionals Cinema Italian Training, the objective is to train young people

like actors and  technicians  to  bring them to the set in films with roles for

the  actors  and  professional assignments in the troupe for the technicians, 

giving them  a  contributory position and an insertion in the working world

of  cinema  and  entertainment  in  general.  He  realizes  a  film  with  his students  and  professionals.

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Massimiliano Terzo wrote two books: 

 

" The Knights Manual "

 

" The Crystal Souls "