Franco Maresco

Franco Maresco
Born (1958-05-05) 5 May 1958
Palermo, Italy
Occupations
  • Film director
  • screenwriter
  • film editor
Years active1992–present

Franco Maresco is an Italian filmmaker. He is best known for his collaborations with Daniele Ciprì in their former duo Ciprì & Maresco, in which they directed a large number of documentaries and short film, alongside the critically acclaimed The Return of Cagliostro (2003).

His solo credits includes the docu-fictions Belluscone: A Sicilian Story (2014), and The Mafia Is No Longer What It Used to Be (2019) for which he won the Special Jury Prize.