Alessandro Bianco moved his first steps in the audiovisual field as a university student. While studying Communication Science in Bologna, he worked at the DSC MediaLab as chief of the video department, specializing in editing.
At the same time, he attended the Michele Fasano School of Cinema, where he participated in the production of a short film (CHAW) and a medium-length film (ILIR). He also attended a Digital Video Cinematography course held by Gigi Martinucci, and thereafter worked as his assistant.
In the summer of 2003, he produced and directed the music video for Andrea Piermattei’s song ‘Sungaria’, screened at the MEI Festival of Faenza.
Since the beginning of 2004, he has produced documentaries for the Massimo Zonarelli Intercultural Centre in Bologna and directed the music video ‘Qual era’, which reached the finals of the Fandango Festival in Rome.
Between 2004 and 2006, he worked as Director of Photography for the short films ‘Lola’, ‘Bella Bologna’, ‘La paura del portiere al calcio di Rigore’ (winner of the Genova Film Festival and shortlisted for the London Film Festival), and for the documentary ‘La morte di Girasole’.
In 2005, his screenplay ‘Silent Consent’, written with Donatello Bianco, won the national selection at the European Nisi Masa Festival and was awarded during at the Berlin FIST festival with a workshop held at the Festival of Angers. In 2006 he directed ‘Silent Consent’, his first short film, in competition in several european and north american festivals.
In 2009, he wrote and directed, together with journalist Stefano Campetta, “Taking it sportly”, a documentary about the everyday life of palestinian athletes in Ramallah, West Bank.
In 2010, he directed “Enrico’s Brazil”, a documentary filmed in Sao Paulo, Belo Horizonte, Recife and Salvador de Bahia, produced with the support of CISL Emilia-Romagna.