Valia Santella (born 24 May 1965) is an Italian screenwriter and film director.
Born in Naples, Valia Santella is the daughter of the actors Mario and Maria Luisa Santella.[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.[3][4] In 2022, she won a second David di Donatello for the screenplay of Leonardo Di Costanzo's The Inner Cage.[5]
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