I am a film producer, director and distributor. I am a member of EFA/European Film Academy and an alumnus of Berlinale Talents, Torino Film Lab and Locarno Spring Academy. I was born in Pescara (Abruzzo, Italy) in 1994 and I currently live in Rome, where I graduated cum laude in 2016 in Modern Literature with the thesis “Virtual reality and image culture in the civilization of entertainment”. In 2024 I founded my publishing house and production company called Il Varco and produced 28 short films, 4 feature films and the edition of 11 books. I founded the film residency Nouvelle Bug and the film distribution Gargantua Film. My film productions were featured in more than 250 festivals all around the world. As a director, I shot “Materia Celeste” in 2019 and “Polepole” in 2021. In 2020 I studied in Werner Herzog’s film Accelerator in Lanzarote, in which I developed the filmed correspondence “Letters to Herzog” and the short film “Flores del precipicio“. I have been selected among the finalists of Premio Zavattini 2021/2022. In 2022 I presented “Happy New Year, Jim“, shot entirely inside videogames and produced by Nieminen film and Naffintusi as the first machinima in Cannes history at the 54. Quinzaine des Réalisateurs. In 2023 I participated in Locarno Spring Academy with Radu Jude where I made my film “Eschaton Ad“, a film about the apocalyptic advent of AI. In august 2023 I studied with Apichatpong Weerasethakul in his workshop in Yucatan, Mexico. In november 2023 my feature documentary “A stranger quest”, shot between USA and Canada, played in the 41. Turin Film Festival. In 2024 I was invited to be part of Berlinale Talents and European Film Academy, and my short film “The Eggregores’ Theory” opened the 39. Venice Film Critics’ Week as the first AI generated film in Venice Film Festival and was nominated for European Film Awards by ZINEBI and for the 70. David di Donatello awards, and won a special Silver Ribbon. I am currently developing different feature projects, among which “The Hallucinations“, a period piece developed at TorinoFilmLab and at the 49. Residence of Festival de Cannes where it won the CNC Development award. This is my filmography.
My projects deal with critiques of progressivism, disobedience, virtual realities, uncanny valleys, disillusion and anti-capitalism, but they keep their intimate, sweet longing for simple feelings. A part of my work is represented by this manifesto.