Salvo Cuccia (Palermo, 1960)  has researched in video art and new forms of documentary.

In 2005  Détour De Seta,  documentary on director Vittorio De Seta, was presented by Martin Scorsese at the  Tribeca Film Festival in New York and  at Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in Durham.

In 2006  he filmed the documentary Oltre Selinunte and won the prize CinemAvvenire at XXIV Torino Film Festival.

In 2007  he created and directed the project Albasuite, a series of documentaries on the arbëreshë,  the Italo- Albanian minority community in southern Italy where Cuccia is from.

In 2011 he directed the documentary  1982. L’Estate di Frank  produced by Eleonora Cordaro for Magazzini Einstein of Rai Educational.  The documentary is about Frank Zappa’s visit to Sicily and his concert in Palermo.

A new version of the documentary was presented in 2013 for the 70th  edition of the Venice Film Festival:  Summer 82 When Zappa Came to Sicily, produced by Eleonora Cordaro, Abra&Cadabra  and the Zappa Family Trust, with Frank Zappa, Gail Zappa, Moon Unit Zappa, Dweezil Zappa, Diva Zappa, Mathilda Doucette Zappa, Megan Zappa, Massimo Bassoli, Steve Vai, Thomas Nordegg, Tanino Liberatore and Joe Travers.

In  2014  Salvo  shot Hippie Sicily,  documentary on   the commune of Terrasini  and the underground scene of the 70s.

In 2015  Salvo shot Il Soldato Innamorato,  a documentary based on  the visual and written account of his grandfather “Diario della Guerra 15/18”. Produced by Abra&Cadabra withRAI Cinema.

2015 is also the year of Salvo’s first feature film Lo Scambio (Hidden Identity) with Filippo Luna, Barbara Tabita, Paolo Briguglia, Maziar Firouzi, Vincenzo Pirrotta, Tommaso Caporrimo, Sergio Vespertino, Orio Scaduto. Screenplay by Alfonso Sabella, Marco Alessi, Federica Cuccia and Salvo Cuccia. Produced by Eleonora Cordaro for Abra&Cadabra with RAI Cinema.

For other info check the Fb page on Lo scambio