Andrea Gatopoulos (Directing)

He is a film director, producer and distributor. He was born in Pescara (Abruzzo, Italy) and lives in Rome, where he graduated cum laude in 2016 in Modern Literature with the thesis "Virtual reality and image culture in the civilization of entertainment". He founded the production company called Il Varco, the distribution Gargantua Film and the residency Nouvelle Bug. His film productions were featured in more than 500 festivals all around the world including Cannes Quinzaine, Locarno, Venice SIC@SIC, Camerimage, Rotterdam IFFR, and many EFA and Oscar Qualifying Festivals. In 2020 he studied in Werner Herzog's workshop for his film Accelerator in Leticia, Colombia, in which he developed the filmed correspondence "Letters to Herzog" and the short film "Flores del precipicio", featured on FranceTV. He was among the finalists of Premio Zavattini 2021/2022. His short film "Happy New Year, Jim" premiered at Cannes Film Festival during the 54. Quinzaine des...Read More