Enrico Muzzi

Enrico Muzzi debuts as a filmmaker in 2005 with the short “Confessioni di un codardo” (Confessions of a Coward), based on Charles Bukowski’s novels. This work stems out of Enrico’s fondness for Bukowski’s writings meeting his growing love for ... more

Enrico Muzzi debuts as a filmmaker in 2005 with the short “Confessioni di un codardo” (Confessions of a Coward), based on Charles Bukowski’s novels. This work stems out of Enrico’s fondness for Bukowski’s writings meeting his growing love for cinema. The plot is based on the beat writer’s short stories.
It is only after accomplishing this first work that Enrico actually realizes he loves directing and develops quite an appetite for technical practice as well as academic studies on cinematic language.
In 2007 his second short film is out: a pulp work titled “Garbage” in which Enrico, as a young director, takes on the challenge of a genre production in a field still little explored by Italian directors.
He takes care of photography and editing as well as directing. It turns out to be a memorable experience and a rich opportunity to experiment and develop his own language.
Adding pragmatism to his film-making career plans, in the same year Enrico founds his own production company, DreamVision.
In 2011 Enrico graduates at DAMS Bologna (drama, media and entertainment studies university) with a dissertation on film photography and shooting techniques. He comes to realize that to him nothing compares with film-making as a narrative medium.
He then dives into workshops and classes on directing, screenplay writing, photography and editing, as he feels he ought to know as much as he can about all of the aspects involved in a film production. At this point, Enrico meets his soon-to-be director of photography and friend Michele D’Attanasio, with whom he has been working since. Michele collaborates in Enrico’s third work, “La Chance” (The Chance), a docu-fiction on love and couple relationships that digs deep into the dark side of such a common and yet mysterious feeling and its dynamics.
In 2012, Enrico takes off for a study trip in the US and is impressed by Hollywood industry dynamics and management. He spends three months in LA, making the best of his time and does not miss out on the chance to get some contacts and to introduce his works in the business.
A hard-core fan of Hollywood movies, as he leaves he promises himself to be back soon. Once back in Italy, before long his fourth piece is ready: “The Variable”, a film about the economic crisis sweeping the world and particularly Italy.
Enrico here lets us in Silvano’s life, the story a middle-aged man who loses his job and, however hard he tries, cannot manage to get back on feet again.
It is a fictional story summing up several real stories, which stirred Enrico to speak out on a socially sensitive theme.
As soon as the shootings were over, Enrico has returned to the States for a six-months stay with the plan to shoot his first film on American soil.