Luca Vullo was born in Caltanissetta in 1979. His training as a film-maker started in Bologna where he studied film making at the DAMS (Art, Music and Performing Arts Department), attended several workshops and laboratories and worked in numerous sets.

Then he went back to Sicily, to his homeland, and from here his first journey as a director–narrator started with “ Cumu veni si cunta”, a socio-anthropological story about a town and the art of fending for themselves of its people, where the director’s eyes discover the “street trades” made up in order to provide for one’s own family, and a few artists, outcast by the society they live in, who show their works and uneasiness.

• 2008

December

“From Sulphur to Coal” takes part in the 3rd Edition “Obiettivi sul lavoro” 2008 – Rome and gains a Special Mention.

November

Luca Vullo is invited as a guest at the Federico Fellini Foundation Award in Rimini, as young emergent author.

October

"From Sulphur to Coal" takes part in the 15th Documentary Festival “Libero Bizzarri Award” – San Benedetto del Tronto (AP) and is awarded the ‘Cineforum’ Prize.

September

“From Sulphur to Coal” takes part in the EtnofilmFest in Este (PD) and is awarded a prize as ‘Best Documentary’.

August

“From Sulphur to Coal” takes part in the 5th Edition Collecchio Film Festival (PR) and is awarded First Prize “Men: Chronicles and Memoirs”

July

“From Sulphur to Coal” takes part in the Flower Film Festival in Spello (PG) and is awarded First Prize Emergent Authors “Silver Flower” .

June

“From Sulphur to Coal” is awarded second prize at the Roberto Gavioli Contest in Brescia whose jury was presided by Gian Piero Brunetta.

As Mr Brunetta says, Luca Vullo’s documentary “gives an important contribution to our knowledge of a story, that of the Italian emigration, which is too often surrounded by rhetoric, clichés, omissions and removals”

May

“From Sulphur to Coal” takes part in the first Invisible Cinema Festival “Respiri-ti” in Como, and is awarded a Special Mention “Lunghi Respiri”.

March

Official presentation of the socio-historical documentary “From Sulphur ro Coal” at the Cinema Arlecchino in Palermo.

• 2007

September

The Sicilian director is invited in Budapest as art director of the film section at an Italian auteur short film festival.

The festival was part of the "Kulturhid" Festival, a Cultural-Gastronomic event between Italy and Hungary which took place in Budapest on September 21st to 27th.

June

With the actress Emanuela Pantano, Luca Vullo gives a course in cinematography and makes “Picciriddi”, a short film whose protagonists are a group of children with their spontaneity and simple language.

"Picciriddi" is part of a project for socialization and entertainment for children living in two of the most degraded areas in Caltanissetta (San Giuseppe and Provvidenza).

• 2006

December

“A Caruso with no name” takes part in the Festival Cortiamo in Alcamo (Trapani) and is awarded First Prize as best documentary.

November

Together with the Sicilian Delegation Vullo takes part in the IV International Convention of Young Sicilians in Mendoza, Argentina, where the documentary “Cumu veni si cunta” is presented to the Sicilian community.

July

From 20th to 22nd July 2006 Vullo, being a director and expert on cinema, is invited to be part of the jury at the Cortodams Festival in Montà D’Alba (CN)

Luca Vullo makes his first fiction short film “The Window for Rent”. He is the author of the film as well as, together with Uliano Pistelli and Rossana Ghillino, of the writing up of the story line and the film script.

June

Luca Vullo goes to Australia with the Sicilian Delegation for the World Convention of  Sicilian Youth held by the C.R.A.S.E.S. and the S.E.R.E.S in Melbourne, then for the official presentation of “Cumu veni si cunta at the San Francesco room of the Co.As.It in the Italian House of Little Italy in Sidney.

March

Vullo founded his Film Company “Ondemotive”.

January-May

In collaboration with the musician Roberto Gallà, Vullo makes the documentary “The Holy Week in Caltanissetta” sponsored by the Town Councillor for ‘Identity and Future’ of Caltanissetta.

• 2005

November

In November 2005 Luca Vullo attends a course by PREMIERE® PRO 1.5 –ADVANCED about professional video editing given by Marco Gianstefani at the Pegaso in Villanova di Castenaso (BO)

May

The director Luca Vullo, with his work “Cumu veni si cunta”, is mentioned in a book called “Idea of an island” by the writer Stefano Beccastrini, published by Aska, about film production in Sicily and emerging directors. This book has been distributed to all European film libraries.

April

In April 2005 Vullo contributed as director to an ethno-musicological documentary by Ms Giuliana Fugazzotto. This project, sponsored by Bologna University and by several City Councils, has the aim to study and analyze the strategies for music learning and transmission of the repertoire to the lay confraternities in charge of it.

March

Luca Vullo is invited at the Italian House of the Nazareth College in Rochester, USA, where he presents his documentaries “Cumu veni si cunta” and “ Caltanissetta Gold of Sicily” on the occasion of “The glory that is Sicily”, an event organized by Professor Rosalba Pisaturo.

The week after the Sicilian director flies to Toronto, Canada, where both documentaries are presented at the Delia Social Cultural Center.

February

In February 2005 Vullo attends the “DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP” at the PEGASOFT in Villanova di Castenaso (BO), “A practical course on direction of photography with digitized images” given by Luigi Martinucci.

January

Official presentation of the documentary “ Caltanissetta Gold of Sicily”, a project sponsored by the Town Councillor for ‘Identity and Future’ of Caltanissetta. In this work the Sicilian landscape variety mixes up with the story of a town, its history and the unique tradition of the Holy Week in Caltanissetta.

Inside this documentary you can see “A caruso with no name”, a short film half way between documentary and fiction, in which the director focuses his attention on the pains and hard work of the people in the sulphur mines.

• 2004

October

On 26th – 27th October 2004 Vullo attends a conference held by Jane Campion at the Lumiere 2 in Bologna with the participation of the producer Laurie Parker in which the director analysed the stages in the making of her latest film “In the cut”.

January

This piece of news was reported by many national and international newspapers and the director received a recognition by the CNR manager in Pisa.

January

“Cumu veni si cunta” is awarded a Special Mention by Giampiero Solari at the “Corto Dorico” National Short Film Contest in Ancona.