Stefano Alleva

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Stefano Francesco Alleva (Milan, 11 March 1963) is an Italian film director, screenwriter and film producer. Born in Milan in 1963, he completed classical secondary studies at the Scuola navale militare "Francesco Morosini" in Venice; after attending the Faculty of Modern Literature with a specialisation in Communication Sciences at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan and military service as a reserve officer, he spent a period of study in the United States, during which he specialised in film production in New York and direction and image processing in Chicago. During his US period he also devoted himself to the production and making of documentaries and the staging of theatre works; he also has experience on the staff of Brian De Palma as a volunteer assistant to the Chicago crew working on the film The Untouchables.