I'm Not Scared

I'm Not Scared
Italian release poster
Italian	Io non ho paura
Directed by	Gabriele Salvatores
Screenplay by	Niccolò Ammaniti Francesca Marciano
Based on	Io non ho paura by Niccolò Ammaniti
Produced by	Marco Chimenz Giovanni Stabilini Maurizio Totti Riccardo Tozzi
Starring	Giuseppe Cristiano Mattia Di Pierro Aitana Sánchez-Gijón
Cinematography	Italo Petriccione
Edited by	Massimo Fiocchi
Music by	Ezio Bosso Quartetto d'Archi di Torino
Production companies	Alquimia Cinema Cattleya Colorado Film Production Medusa Film The Producers Films
Distributed by	Medusa Distribuzione
Release dates	8 February 2003 (2003-02-08) (BIFF) 14 March 2003 (2003-03-14) (Italy) 16 May 2003 (2003-05-16) (Spain) 11 June 2004 (2004-06-11) (UK)
Running time	101 minutes[1]
Countries	Italy Spain United Kingdom
Language	Italian
Box office	$7.4 million[2]

I'm Not Scared (Italian: Io non ho paura, lit. I Am Not Afraid) is a 2003 Italian crime mystery thriller film directed by Gabriele Salvatores. Francesa Marciano and Niccolò Ammaniti wrote the script, basing it on Ammaniti's successful 2001 Italian novel with the same name. The story is set during Italy's "Years of Lead", a time in the 1970s riddled with terrorism and kidnapping, and tells the story of a nine-year-old boy who discovers a terrible crime committed by the entire population of his southern Italian town. Although selected as the Italian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 76th Academy Awards, it was not nominated.