Giulia Calenda (Writer)
Little is known about Giulia Calenda, a figure with a modest footprint in Writer. Stay tuned for updates as more details become available.
Works
Anti-Mafia Squad
Fighting a modern, fragmented and brutal Mafia, the Sicilian Anti-Mafia Squad seeks to crush the criminal network that holds a death grip on the region. Sophisticated surveillance helps, unless the enemy lies within.
Release Date2009-03-31
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count19
The Story
Ida, a single mother of two sons, hides her Jewish heritage and fights against poverty and persecution during the end of World War II and post-war Rome.
Release Date2024-01-08
DepartmentWriting
JobStory Editor
Episode Count8
Vote Count30
There's Still Tomorrow
In postwar Rome, a working-class woman dreams of a better future for herself and her daughter while facing abuse at the hands of her domineering husband. When a mysterious letter arrives, she discovers the courage to change the circumstances of her life.
Release Date2023-10-26
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count1535
A Beautiful Day
Tommaso, a single father of four, has shut himself off from the world. When his daughters push him to start over, he meets Lara — a brilliant, captivating woman. But both carry secrets that could change everything.
Release Date2026-03-05
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count89
The Tasters
In autumn 1943, in Gross-Partsch, 26-year-old Rosa, who had come from Berlin to stay with the parents of her husband Gregor, who was fighting on the Russian front, was taken by the SS to a mysterious place. Forced to taste a dish, she joins the group of tasters responsible for checking that the food destined for Hitler is not poisoned.
Release Date2025-03-27
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count244
Tornare
Cristina Comencini defines the film as a "thriller of the soul." It's the story of a woman who returns to Italy from the US to attend the funeral of her late father, an American admiral living in Naples. Here she meets a man who seems to know too many things about her.
Release Date2019-10-26
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count36
Prima di noi
Release Date2026-01-04
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count10
Vote Count7
The Children's Train
In late 1940s Italy, a mother makes the difficult decision to send her son to the north, where he catches glimpses of a new life away from poverty.
Release Date2024-10-21
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count342
Latin Lover
The five daughters of a famous actor, all from different mothers and different nationalities, get together on the 10th anniversary of his death for a celebration of his career.
Release Date2015-03-19
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count81
Run to You
Gianni is a serial seducer but his life is destined to change when he meets Chiara, a beautiful woman who has had an accident and is paraplegic.
Release Date2022-03-17
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count390
Do You See Me?
Serena Bruno is an architect who studied and got several masters in different countries of the world but she decides to go back to Italy so she can live and work there. She will soon find out that her native country is not as open minded and she will struggle to find a job that she truly loves and is passionate about. Along the way she will meet Francesco a gay man who will help and support her throughout her journey.
Release Date2014-11-20
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count591
Something New
Lucia and Maria are two best friends, who have known each other from the beginning of their life, but have very different tastes and behaviors. Lucia is done with men, Maria, on the contrary, cannot be without one. One night, the perfect man shows up in Maria's bed: handsome, sensible, mature and passionate.The next morning brings up misunderstandings and lies which make the two friends split up and take a break for themselves. Maybe that young man met by chance is really the one every woman is looking for, because with his simple theories he manages to paint the perfect picture of the two women's lives.
Release Date2016-10-13
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count228
Don't Tell
Sabina has a regular life. She is satisfied with her job and her love for Franco. Lately nightmares start disturbing her, and almost in the same time she discovers to be pregnant. Step by step she remembers her childhood spent within a severe middle-class family. But a big secret is hidden within her heart. Sabina wants to contact again her brother, a University teacher in the US, to try to understand what is happened in their past. What is the secret? She is determined to bring clarity and serenity in her life. She finally manages to free herself from her "beast in the heart".
Release Date2006-01-13
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count90
Guests
Gheni and Gherti, two young Albanian immigrants who live in Rome and work in a restaurant, settle in the home of the photographer Corrado, who makes friends with the first. In a torrid and empty city for the summer holidays Gherti, more restless, binds with Lino, an old Sardinian who every day accompanies his mentally ill wife to the city. Gheni instead continues his little "climb" in the restaurant and strengthens his friendship with Corrado.
Release Date1998-09-21
DepartmentCrew
JobThanks
Vote Count17
Like a Cat on a Highway
The story of an encounter between a bourgeois man and a poor woman, because their teenage children fall in love.
Release Date2017-12-28
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count946
Iside
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Don't Stop Me Now
Paola, a modern woman used to the hardships of modern life, takes her chance to make things right for herself.
Release Date2019-04-18
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count391
Steel
Here, the steel worker works on a continuous cycle, twenty-four hours a day and never stops. There, by the sea, on the island of Elba there is a paradise and the unreachable dream of happy families. In the middle, on the shores their secret beach, neither here nor there, Anna and Francesca, small but big, "thirteen years old almost fourteen", who are living their last summer of innocence before high school. The film is based on the book by Silvia Avallone.
Release Date2012-11-14
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count38
Mom or Dad?
A divorced couple fights for the custody of their three children: neither of them wants it. Mom wants to leave them to dad, and vice versa.
Release Date2017-02-14
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count647
Io sono Tempesta
To avoid jail, a tax-dodging businessman is sentenced to a year of community service in a homeless shelter.
Release Date2018-04-12
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count287
Born for You
Alba has Down's Syndrome and was left in the hospital when she was born. Thirty families rejected her before the court decided to entrust her to Luca: a Catholic — and gay — single man.
Release Date2023-10-05
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count69
Black and White
Racial integration is Elena's profession and passion, not only filling her working day as a cultural mediator assisting immigrants, but spilling over into her home life as well. All too often her husband Carlo must attend charity events where he feels distinctly out of place. During one of these evenings, Carlo meets Nadine, a beautiful black woman.
Release Date2008-01-11
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count70
Petra - Gli Onori di Casa
Release Date2025-10-15
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
The Choice
A childless couple struggle in the aftermath of a sexual assault leaves the woman pregnant.
Release Date2015-04-02
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count71
Woman of My Life
Longtime Italian cinema star Stefania Sandrelli (The First Beautiful Thing) is Alba, the mother of two very different adult sons. While Giorgio is a playboy who constantly cheats on his wife, Leonardo (Luca Argentero, Eat Pray Love) is always unlucky in love. When Leonardo finally meets the woman of his dreams, Sara, he brings her home to meet the family, but it appears this is not the first time that Sara has met Giorgio. Directed by Luca Lucini and stars Luca Argentero, Alessandro Gassman and Stefania Sandrelli.
Release Date2010-09-17
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count52
Like a Cat on a Highway 2
Three years after her relationship with Giovanni, Monica is in prison and has to ask his ex for help.
Release Date2021-08-14
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count367
Petra - Il Silenzio dei Chiostri
Release Date2025-10-08
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
A Special Day
Gina and Marco are living in the suburbs of Rome. The two meet on a very special day: their first day at work. They have a future that awaits them and really seems at hand. Gina is about to realize her dream of becoming an actress, while Marco for the first time has found an opportunity that allows him to start dreaming: a job in a car rental company as a driver. They are enabled to know each other since his first duty is to drive Gina to an appointment, and given a delay, they have to share the whole day. This journey will take them from the periphery to the center of the city, will serve both to compare their experiences and think about a future that has already begun...
Release Date2012-10-04
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count17
Just a Father
Carlo is a doctor that has recently lost his wife. Affected by the loss, he is supported by his family and friends, and, above all, for the love he feels towards his little daughter. And then, one day, he meets Camille.
Release Date2008-11-28
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count117
Land In Between
On the edge of a road that leads out of town, some Nigerian prostitutes pass the time on sagging sofas, bargaining with white clients for their bodies and their thoughts. On another street, some Slavic boys wait to be hired as bricklayers, but they are willing to do any kind of work. At night, an Egyptian works as an illegal in a gas station.
Release Date1996-11-01
DepartmentCrew
JobThanks
Vote Count20
Petra - Riti di Morte
Release Date2020-09-14
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter