Jean-Jacques Annaud is a French film director, screenwriter and producer. He directed Quest for Fire (1981), The Name of the Rose (1986), The Bear (1988), The Lover (1992), Seven Years in Tibet (1997), Enemy at the Gates (2001), Black Gold (2011), and Wolf Totem (2015).
Gianni Amelio is an Italian film director.
Ettore Scola was an Italian screenwriter and film director. He received a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film in 1978 for his film A Special Day and over the course of his film career was nominated for five Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film.
Ferzan Özpetek is a Turkish-Italian film director and screenwriter, residing in Italy.
Daniele Luchetti is an Italian film director, screenwriter and actor.
Paolo Virzì is an Italian film director, writer and producer.
Emanuele Crialese is an Italian screenwriter and film director. He is a native of Rome and studied filmmaking in New York City.
Matteo Garrone is an Italian filmmaker.
Elio Germano is an Italian actor. He is the recipient of many accolades, including a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor and a Silver Bear for Best Actor.
Alba Caterina Rohrwacher is an Italian actress.
Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician is a 1992 Italian drama film, written and directed by Mario Martone.
Andrea Guerra is an Italian composer. He is noted for his film scores of Facing Windows (2003), Hotel Rwanda (2004), and The Pursuit of Happyness (2006).
Roberta Torre is an Italian film director and screenwriter. In 1997 she won the Nastro d'argento for best new director with her first film, Tano da morire. The film entered the 54th Venice International Film Festival, winning the FEDIC Award, the Kodak Award and the Luigi De Laurentiis Award for best directorial debut film. The film also won two David di Donatello and two other Nastro d'Argento for best score and best supporting role.
The 71st annual Venice International Film Festival took place in Venice, Italy between 27 August to 6 September 2014. The festival opened with Alejandro G. Iñárritu's film Birdman, and closed with Ann Hui's drama film The Golden Era. Italian actress Luisa Ranieri hosted the opening and closing nights of the festival. The Swedish film A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence, directed by Roy Andersson, won the Golden Lion, and Joshua Oppenheimer's The Look of Silence won the Grand Jury Prize.
Cristiano Bortone is an Italian director, screenwriter and producer. He is Managing Director of the Sino-European Association Bridging the Dragon.
Giuliano Taviani is an Italian composer.
Jonas Carpignano is an American-Italian filmmaker. He is known for the films Mediterranea, A Ciambra, and A Chiara.
Vivo Film, established in Rome at the beginning of 2004 by Gregorio Paonessa and Marta Donzelli, is an Italian independent production company for art-house films.
Hidden Away is a 2020 Italian biographical drama film co-written, directed and co-edited by Giorgio Diritti. It stars Elio Germano as Italian painter Antonio Ligabue, who lived a notoriously reclusive life, troubled with physical problems and mental illness.
The Predators is a 2020 Italian comedy-drama film written and directed by Pietro Castellitto in his directorial debut.
