Giansalvo Pinocchio was born in Palermo in 1997, on March 18.
Graduated from Liceo Scientifico Plinio Seniore in Rome, he started to study film direction at Roma Film Academy in Cinecittà. He was selected at the Scuola d’Arte Cinematografica Gian Maria Volonté, where he began his studies for the three-year training period 2017-2019 as a student of film direction.
In 2017, he worked as assistant director in the TV film Prima che la notte by Daniele Vicari, in which Fabrizio Gifuni plays the role of Pippo Fava, a sicilian journalist killed by the Mafia. During the second year he participated in the international festival 48filmproject with the short film Almost Dead, which won the Best Actress Award. The short film was selected for the 2018 Murmat Festival and was screened during the 2018 edition of Il Cinema in Piazza, organized by Cinema America, and in the 2th editionof Redroom Open House.
As final exam of the second year he directed the short film Rotten Goods, screened both at the 2019 edition of Il Cinema in Piazza and at the CineVillage festival in Parco Talenti.
Later he worked as assistant director in the film Volevo Nascondermi by Giorgio Diritti.
Biography of the painter Antonio Ligabue, it was selected for the Berlinale 70, where the protagonist Elio Germano won the Silver Bear for Best Actor. The movie won the Nastro dell’Anno 2020.
As a conclusion to the three-year period at the Volonté, he directed the collective feature film L’ultimo piano, starring Francesco Acquaroli and Simone Liberati. The film, presented in the Festa Mobile section of the 37th Turin Film Festival, is currently available on Raiplay.
In September 2019, he shot at Leonardo da Vinci International Airport the short film Lost & Found, screened in the 2nd edition of the Fiumicino Film Festival. A few days later the treatment for the film Lenny Bruce non ha paura was selected at Pitch in the Day 2019. In 2020 he was selected as a finalist in the 5th edition of Premio Solinas Italia Spagna with the film Fiesta. In the same year he directed the short film Why my name?, selected as a finalist at the Mobile Film Festival – Women’s Empowerment.
In January 2021 he graduated in Philosophy at La Sapienza University.