Fulvio Lucisano (1928) is an Italian film and television producer and entrepreneur. He received the Magna Grecia Special Lifetime Achievement Award, "for having told through his films the story of Italy, a country marked by contradictions but also by passion and creative genius", during the 2019 edition of the international #SudeFuturi meeting held in Mondello and organized by the Magna Grecia Foundation chaired by President Nino Foti.

Born in Rome, to a Calabrian father from Villa San Giovanni (Reggio Calabria), he is part of that generation that witnessed Italy being torn apart and invaded by foreign armies, who from that humiliation drew the will, determination and courage to start over, contributing to the rebirth of the “Bel Paese” from its ashes.

Despite graduating in Law from the Sapienza University of Rome, his passion has always been cinema. For all the young people of the time, post-war cinema presented itself as a dream, a magical world where beauty and emotions were represented at the fullest. Thus, in 1949 Lucisano's career in cinema began, with his participation in the documentary on the Jubilee Holy Year, which was followed by the collaboration with the Istituto Luce for the creation of newsreels for Italian America. Thus it was that in 1949 Lucisano's career in cinema began, with his participation in the documentary on the Jubilee Holy Year, which was followed by the collaboration with the Istituto Luce for the creation of newsreels for Italian America.

His activity as a documentary filmmaker increased exponentially, to the point that he began to work on his own for production Documento Film, to about three hundred documentaries including Piazza Navona and Lo Scrigno del Cardinale. It was through these documentaries that Lucisano was able to express the beauty of Italy, a cradle of unparalleled artistic and cultural heritage. At the same time, he received professional training while being in close contact with foreign entrepreneurs and film productions, United States ones in particular, an important experience for an Italian producer who grew up in the years of autarky and closure.

However, the work he had done up to that point sparked his career as a film producer, a goal he achieved with the making of his first film I Quattro del Getto Tornante, shot in Vista Vision with a camera later adopted by Technicolor.

Just three years after his debut as a film producer, in 1958 Lucisano founded his production company called Italian International Film (IIF), of which he is still president and which, today, after being around for 50 years, continues to be one of the most prolific and well established production companies in Italy as well as abroad.

With the IIF, Lucisano has produced over one hundred and thirty films including Cosa avete fatto a Solange (1972), Tre tigri contro tre tigri (1977), Aragosta a colazione (1979), Il ras del quartiere (1983), Un ragazzo di Calabria (1987), Il grande cocomero (1993), L’anno prossimo vado a letto alle dieci (1995), Ninfa plebea (1996), Fantozzi – Il ritorno (1996),  La mia vita a stelle e strisce (2003), Notte prima degli esami (2006), Cemento armato (2007) and Ex (2009).

With his works, Lucisano has always given prestige to his beloved land and in particular to his region of origin, Calabria, to which Un ragazzo di Calabria (1987) and Aspromonte (2019) are linked. The latter tells an archaic fairy tale, a symbolic and nostalgic tale, a tribute that the producer, together with director Mimmo Calopresti, has decided to dedicate to his Calabrian origins, demonstrating a deep attachment to the roots and a genuine love for his land, often forgotten by others.

Since the 90s, together with producer Aurelio De Laurentiis, IIF has created a series of multiplexes in the city of Rome, and in the 2000s, the same production company also began to deal with television productions.

Lucisano, with his brilliant work, has brought prestige to Italy and, in October 2007, the President of the Italian Republic Giorgio Napolitano bestowed the title of Cavaliere del Lavoro on the producer. In 2009, he received the David di Donatello for his fifty-year long career.