Francesco Pasqua is a lecturer in History of Cinema and Video at the Academy of Fine Arts of Syracuse – MADE Program.
He graduated with honors in Performing Arts and combines his teaching career with work as a director, screenwriter, and author.
In 2011, he wrote the screenplays for two short films directed by Max Croci: Soltanto uno scherzo, starring Maurizio Crozza (winner at the International Film Festival of Manhattan), and Countdown, starring Carla Signoris and Ambra Angiolini (winner of two Silver Ribbons for Best Actress).
Since 2016, he has collaborated with the production company Eliofilm, for which he served as author of the 2016 and 2017 editions of the Braille Prize broadcast on Rai 1.
In 2018, he worked as story editor on the film Copperman, directed by Eros Puglielli and starring Luca Argentero.
Between 2021 and 2023, he published La cucina incantata. Le ricette tratte dai film di Hayao Miyazaki, Pulp Kitchen. Le ricette tratte dai film di Quentin Tarantino, and Stranger Food. Le ricette tratte dalla serie dei Duffer Brothers (Trenta Editore), together with Silvia Casini and Raffaella Fenoglio.
In 2024, again with Casini and Fenoglio, he published the novel La ragazza che amava Miyazaki with Einaudi Ragazzi, which won the Selection Prize 2025 at the Premio Bancarellino.
Also with Casini and Fenoglio, for Einaudi Ragazzi, the new novel Dragonfly – The Shape of the Wind is scheduled for release in May 2026.
He collaborates as an author and director with the photography studio PixelXpixeL and with Cinedrome, a cultural association dedicated to film education and dissemination.
