Donatella Palermo

She received Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature nominations for Fire at Sea with director Gianfranco Rosi[1] at 89th Academy Awards.

[2][3] Donatella Palermo started her career as a projectionist, later she moved on to production.

[4] By 2000, Palermo had already produced such successful film as To Die for Tano, Viol@, and Appassionate by Tonino De Bernardi.

[5] In 2015, she met Gianfranco Rosi and produced his documentary Fire at Sea.

Her second Berlinale-winning project was Caesar Must Die by Taviani brothers.