Pasquale Pozzessere

Pasquale Pozzessere
Born	1957 (age 60–61) Lizzano
Occupation	film director, screenwriter

Pasquale Pozzessere (born in 1957) is an Italian film director and screenwriter.

Born in Lizzano, Taranto in the mid-1980s Pozzessere abandoned his medicine university studies to enter the cinema industry working as a script supervisor for Pupi Avati and as assistant director of Francesco Maselli. After directing a number of short films, he made his feature film debut in 1992, with Verso Sud, for which he was nominated to a David di Donatello for Best New Director and won the Grolla d'oro in the same category. The film also won the Grand Prix at the Annecy Film Festival.