Matteo Rovere

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Matteo Rovere
Born22 January 1982 (1982-01-22) (age 42)
Rome, Italy
Occupations
  • Film director
  • screenwriter
  • film producer

Matteo Rovere (born 22 January 1982) is an Italian director, screenwriter and producer. He's the youngest Italian film-maker to have won the Nastro d'argento for best producer, with I Can Quit Whenever I Want .

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Life and career

Born in Rome in 1982, Matteo Rovere started directing short films at very young age, and his shorts were screened at over 140 festivals. [1]

In 2007, his short film Homo Homini Lupus won the Nastro d'Argento for best short film. [1]

In 2009 he made his feature film debut with the coming of age drama A Game for Girls , which was entered into the competition at the 2008 Rome International Film Festival. [1] He debuts as film producer with the documentary Pietro Germi – Il bravo, il bello, il cattivo, presented at the 62° Cannes Film Festival.

In 2012 his second feature film as director Drifters debuts on theaters, the film is adapter from Sandro Veronesi novel with the same name and interpreted by Andrea Bosca, Miriam Giovanelli, Claudio Santamaria, Michele Riondino and Massimo Popolizio. The film was presented in London as global preview the year before in occasion of the British Film Institute Festival.

In 2014 he's film producer of Sydney Sibilia's I Can Quit Whenever I Want , film that makes more than 5 million euros at the box office, achieving 12 nominations for the David di Donatello and 5 nominations for Nastro d'argento. Matteo Rovere won the Nastro d'Argento for Best Producer.

In 2016 he wrote, directed and produced his third film Italian Race , starring Stefano Accorsi and Matilda De Angelis. It became one of the most successful box office hits in Italy that year, well received both by critics and audience. The film won best cinematography, best editing, best sound editing, best make-up artist and best musical effects at the 2017 David di Donatello's awards and one Nastro d'argento for best film editing. That year he also produced two sequels of I Can Quit Whenever I Want, entitled I Can Quit Whenever I Want: Masterclass and I Can Quit Whenever I Want: Ad Honorem .

In 2019 he directed the historical drama The First King: Birth of an Empire (Il primo re), starring Alessandro Borghi and Alessio Lapice. The film was nominated for eight Nastro d'argento awards such as Best Film and Best Director. The same year he was appointed as showrunner, producer and director of Romulus , a Sky Original TV series. [2]

In 2020 he also produced, together with Ascent Film, the biopic The Bad Poet , about the last days of Gabriele D'Annunzio, and the claustrophobic thriller Shadows , with Mia Threapleton and Lola Petticrew. [3]

Filmography

Director and screenwriter

Film

TV series

Producer

Nominations and awards

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Redazione. "Matteo Rovere". MyMovies . Retrieved 11 May 2016.
  2. ↑ "Sky Italia to Explore Birth of Rome in New Series 'Romulus'". The Hollywood Reporter. 29 May 2019. Retrieved 26 November 2019.
  3. ↑ Vivarelli, Nick (15 November 2019). "Sky Italia Backs Its First English-Language Film, Thriller 'Shadows' (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved 26 November 2019.
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