Alessandro Pavone is a documentary producer/director based between London and Montreal, Canada.

Born in the Southern Italian town of Taranto, Alessandro holds a Degree in Communication Studies (MA in Film and Television studies) from the LUMSA University of Rome.

In Italy, he started his career promoting shorts and documentaries for Italia Cinema, the government agency responsible for supporting and encouraging film and cinema culture. He also worked as a promo producer for Mediaset, Italy's most influential private broadcasters. After spending one month in the USA attending a documentary filmmaking course he worked as a producer/director filming, producing and editing for several production companies.

Among his work as a filmmaker, Alessandro has produced and directed a range of human interest and issues documentaries, including “I Am From Bardhaj” shot in Albania for the Italian NGO CeLIM and “The Revolution of the Microcredit.” He has been a producer/director for the Prix Italia nominated documentary series “Muhammad Yunus: My Nobel Prize to the Women” RAI television. His film, “The Big Race” (on the trials and challenges facing immigrants in Western Europe) won the 2006 Homo Migrans prize, the humanitarian award for documentary, as well a round of festival prize nominations.

In 2007, he moved to London and started to produce current affairs stories for the Italian news channel of La Repubblica. Later that year he joined Performance Films as an assistant producer. In this role he was also responsible for the production and distribution of the BBC documentary “Shroud of Turin – Material Evidence”.

From 2008 Alessandro is developing documentary projects with international production companies between Europe and North America. He teaches the “Funding & Marketing the Documentary” workshop at the Maine Media Workshops, Rockport, ME USA.