Sara De Martino was born in Genoa in 1989. After graduating from high school she earned a degree in Modern Literature. She completed her studies with a two-year master’s degree in Storytelling, Screenwriting and Directing at the Holden School in Turin. Since 2015, she has worked as an assistant director in the film and advertising industry. In 2024, she won the sixth edition of Book on a Tree’s “A caccia di storie” competition with Escape from Paradise.
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Mysteries of Summer
Six mysteries. One season where mystery never takes a break. Six original summer stories by Italian acclaimed authors. A girl haunted by a ghost who might be herself. A cursed necklace passed from hand to hand. A school trip gone terrifyingly wrong… Each tale is a standalone mystery—spine-chilling, elegant, or surreal—set in the inescapable heat of the Italian summer. A fresh,…
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Escape From Paradise
Genoa, the late 1950s. Lilli is the fifth of seven sisters, but she couldn’t be more different from them. A tomboy who doesn’t like following the rules, she feels suffocated inside the walls of her home. Everything changes the day Lilli meets Ida, a petty thief in the service of a mysterious woman named Salomè, and her gang of Strays. For…
