Valia Santella (born 24 May 1965) is an Italian screenwriter and film director.
[1] Starting from the 1990 film Matilda by Antonietta De Lillo and Giorgio Magliulo, for about a decade she worked as a script supervisor, becoming a close collaborator of Nanni Moretti.
[1] In 2004 she made her directorial debut with I Can See It in Your Eyes, which premiered at the 61st Venice International Film Festival in the Horizons sidebar.
[2] Starting from Valeria Golino's Miele, she focused on screenwriting, collaborating with Moretti, Marco Bellocchio, Ferzan Özpetek, and Leonardo Di Costanzo, among others.
[1] Between 2019 and 2020, Santella won the David di Donatello for best screenplay and the Nastro d'Argento in the same category for Bellocchio's The Traitor.