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Vito Rocco is a multi-award-winning writer and director whose Film work includes the award-winning Film4 feature FAINTHEART, starring Jessica Hynes, Eddie Marsan and Ewen Bremner and the BAFTA/Kodak winning, Oscar short-listed film GOODBYE, CRUEL WORLD (for Film London).
Vito’s directing work for TV includes the BAFTA, British Comedy Award and Rose D’Or nominated series SUBURBAN SHOOTOUT (for C5) starring Tom Hiddleston, Ruth Wilson and Anna Chancellor; the high-end TV drama series HUSTLE (for BBC 1) starring Robert Vaughn, Marc Warren and Ashley Waters; the prime-time multi award-winning continuing drama series EASTENDERS (for BBC 1) and EMMERDALE (for ITV) and the BAFTA Award winning children’s series SO AWKWARD (for CBBC).
ALCS
Directors UK
Senior Fellowship Higher Education Academy
I specialise in film and TV drama, multi-camera studio direction and short and feature film scriptwriting. By maintaining a continuing practice within the film and TV industry and adopting user-generated techniques for content generation, I am able to transfer modes of learning directly into student-centred learning techniques, ensuring students benefit from industry relevancy. This collaborative environment ensures strong support for students’ academic development, progression and achievement.
Creative practice as research centring on the relationship of fictitious narrative to audience generated and related content. My current research is a filmic documentation of a journey around the coastline of Britain by mobility scooter and seeks to address the creative relationship between audience and filmmaker, fictitious and real-life characters by reflecting on the successes and failures of working within this mode.
By framing the film within a wider narrative context, i.e. that of a fictional journey made by an actual person, as opposed to a fictional character, the film seeks to challenge classic narrative structures within the tradition of the road movie (Kings of The Road, The Straight Story, Little Miss Sunshine) and experiences within film viewing habits by creating a space for the appraisal and presentation of how an audience engages with complex and contradictory actual situations.
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