Manuele Gerosa (Directing)

Emanuele Gerosa was born in 1975 in Rovereto, Italy; in 2001 he graduated in Contemporary History at the University of Bologna and in the same year he began working as a filmmaker. Very early he became interested in documentaries, directing his passion from studying History to telling the Stories of ordinary people with a video camera. In 2007 he began collaborating with an Italian NGO to make his first two medium-length documentaries. Kamenge Northern Quarters in Burundi and Lion Souls in Zimbabwe. Both films were selected in several international festivals, winning various awards, including the “Silver Audience Award” at the 15th Amnesty International Film Festival in 2010 in Canada. These experiences convinced Emanuele to dedicate himself completely to the world of documentaries. In 2015 he completed his first feature-length documentary Between Sisters, the intimate portrait of his mother Ornella and his aunt Teresa, two sisters who must come to terms with their...Read More