WORKS

LE AMAZZONI, 2021 – My debut novel, published in 4 countries.

LE CICLOPI, 2024 – A short story collection about women in today’s world.

 

Other works

Lullaby is a tv series project I created, a French-Polish co-production which was selected at the Drama Series Pitching Forum at MIA 2019 and which has received development funds by IDM Film Fund in November 2019.

#Goldfish is a digital series by Giacomo Arrigoni, produced by Discovery Italy in 2018. Manuela worked as a script consultant.

Out of the blue is a short film which also aired on Sky Arte in Italy, starring Valentina Lodovini, Francesco Colella, Guido Scarano, directed by Gloria Aura Bortolini, produced by OffiCine, script written by Manuela. Link to trailer.

In 2018 I was part of the Digital Think Tank at RACCONTI #7 by IDM Alto Adige. Read more about it on TAKE #9, which features a reportage and an interview including to Manuela.

In 2017 I was invited to the Zurich Film Festival MasterClass, a training and networking event for new and emerging film talents. Here a link to the MasterClass site.

With my play Nylon I won the third place in Italy at the Creative Europe-funded PopDrama Playwriting prize. Here a link to the news and here a link to the PopDrama site.

MY web series #FREEDOM was shortlisted at Premio Solinas in 2016.

In 2015 I was among the 12 writers/directors selected for AdaptLab, the year-long training focusing on adaptation (from book to script) held by the TorinoFilmLab. I adapted the novel by Swiss author Claudine Giovannoni The Annwyn’s Secret.