Stefano Cipani

Stefano Cipani is a director and writer from Italy, best known for his films My Brother Chases Dinosaurs, Shine Bright, and A Pill for David Friktenstein. Cipani's latest film, MMY BROTHER CHASES DINOSAURS, screened at the Venice Film Festival and Denver Film Festival, featuring a strong Italian and Spanish cast.

Stefano Mordini

Over his 28-year career, Stefano Mordini has distinguished himself as a writer, producer, editor, and director of versatile talent. Mordini’s diverse slate of documentary, short, and feature films have premiered at film festivals around the world, most notably at Venice and Berlin. Mordini’s incisive documentaries, such as Il Confine and Like My Father, have garnered critical acclaim, and his fresh approach to the thriller genre in The Invisible Witness is already attracting attention.

Francesco Falaschi

Francesco Falaschi is an Italian film director and screenwriter. He won the David di Donatello for Best Short Film for Quasi fratelli in 1999. He was nominated for a David di Donatello and a Silver Ribbon for Best New Director in 2003 for his first film I Am Emma.

Nanni Moretti

Nanni Moretti was born on the 19th of August, 1953. He lives in Rome, where since he was a kid he devotes himself to his two passions: cinema and water-polo. In 1970 he also played in water-polo first division in Italy, and in the junior National team. In those years he was also very committed in politics, within the extra-parliament left wing..

Roberto Ando

Born in Palermo, Andò debuted as assistant director, working with Francis Ford Coppola, Federico Fellini, Michael Cimino and Francesco Rosi, among others. In 1986 he debuted on stage directing La foresta-radice- labirinto, a puppet theater work based on an Italo Calvino's original story and with puppets drawn by Renato Guttuso. After several documentary films, Andò made his feature debut film in 2000, with Il manoscritto del Principe, produced by Giuseppe Tornatore. His debut novel, Il trono vuoto, won the Campiello prize for best first work; from the novel he derived the film Viva la libertà, with whom he won the David di Donatello for Best Script and the Nastro d'Argento for Best Screenplay.

Paolo Sorrentino

Paolo Sorrentino was born on May 31, 1970 in Naples, Campania, Italy. He is a writer and director, known for Youth (2015), The Great Beauty (2013) and This Must Be the Place (2011). He is married to Daniela D'Antonio. They have two children.

Paolo & Vittorio Taviani

The Taviani brothers studied law at the University of Pisa, becoming interested in the cinema after seeing Roberto Rossellini's Paisan (1946). After writing and directing short films and plays, they made their first feature in 1962. The brothers have continued to work together ever since, with each directing alternate scenes with the other watching but never interfering.

Massimo Natale

His film takes place in the summer of 1980 in Brindisi, Italy. Martino is a young man whose father isn't giving him enough attention. His older brother and his friends, including Silvia, a young northern Italian who spends her holidays in the south of the country and has a romance with Martino. Young people tend to enter an American military base north, and Martino ends up finding a US military officer, a good friend who teaches him how to surf.

Gianni di Gregorio

Gianni Di Gregorio was born on February 19, 1949 in Rome, Lazio, Italy as Giovanni Di Gregorio. He is a writer and actor, known for Gomorrah (2008), Mid-August Lunch (2008) and Citizens of the World (2019). See full bio »

Federico Bondi

His film "Mar Nero" is about an elderly widow Gemma hires a young Romanian woman, Anna, to help her around the house. Although at first Gemma is hard on her, the two become friends and eventually set out to solve the mystery of Anna's husband's disappearance.