Calogero was born in 1957 in Messina. He graduated with a degree in law and worked in many film clubs. After twenty years of collaboration with the Festival in Taormina, in 1985, he founded the Messina Film Festival. Beginning in 2003, he worked with the Costa Iblea Film Festival organization, and in 2006, the Valdarno Cinema Fedic festival. He also teaches and has held film seminars and workshops all over Italy since 1995. He has been a professor at the University of Messina since 2005. After making two films in the super 8 format and a few videos, in 1987, he directed his feature film La gentilezza del tocco that won awards at many international festivals. In 1988, during a festival in Taormina, together with Ninni Bruschetta and Donald Ranvaud, he made an independently produced film called Visioni private (Private Screening), which he finished two years later. Together with Bruschetta he directed the theatre play Il battello degli amanti( 1988) and interpreted the play by Beniamino Joppolo, I carabinieri, presented in Gibellina 1994. In 1995, he directed Gaetano Donizetti’s opera, Rita ou Le mari battu, and two years later Pietro Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana and Ruggero Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci. He directed two operas by Vincenzo Bellini, Norma in 1998, and in 2003 La sonnambula. He also directed documentaries about the making of each of these operas. In 1992 he directed Nessuno and in 1997 Cinque giorni di tempesta which was presented in Venice and won awards in Osaka and Annecy. His last feature film is Metronotte from 2000. He made his documentary, L’implacabile tenente Rossi in 2002 for I diari della Sacher. Two years later he made In the Name of the Godfather, testimony of the places in Sicily where F. F. Coppola made his film The Godfather.