Gigi Roccati

His latest film LUCANIA, LAND BLOOD AND MAGIC produced in collaboration with Rai Cinema and the Italian Ministry of Culture won numerous awards since its premiere in Los Angeles, including three Gran Jury Remi Awards as Best Foreign Film, Best Actress, Best Editing at 52° Houston International Film Festival, Best Film at Social World Film Fest, the Hero and Time Award in Russia. Nominated among the 10 Best Italian Films 2019 by Coming Soon “absolutely recommended” by My Movies & Ciak with extraordinary press and critics. His feature debut BABYLON SISTERS, a coproduction between Italy and Croatia supported by both Ministries of Culture, screened in over thirty International Festivals including Rome, Paris, Mumbai, and Cairo, becoming the image poster of the BFI London Film Festival at the British Film Institute, distributed in UK by Picture House. Winning two Audience Awards and twice Best First Film. A graduate of the London Film School, with a Masters Degree from London Metropolitan University, a Berlinale Talents Campus and Torino Film Lab Alumni, he studied with Mike Leigh and Micheal Mann. With his 16mm graduation short film CHLOE TRAVELS TIME won the “Universal Studios Master Award”, an internship at Universal Studios and Focus Feature in L.A. Selected by the American Cinematheque and Cinecittà Holding. Working with Vivo Film on the screenplay “Beirut, I Love You” adaptation of Zena El Khalil’s memoir, won Torino Film Lab Jury & Audience Awards. Producer of documentaries including THREE MASTERS OF PHOTOGRAPHY with Magnum Contrasto, LIVING UTOPIA on Judith Malina and The Living Theatre and THE ROAD TO KABUL, awarded by RAI TV and the Italian Ministry of Defence as Best War Doc of Italian Television. A firm believer that collective history is a lens to navigate the future and that resilient beauty can be found in war-torn countries, he produced music videos produced around the world to tackle social, political, gender issues through pop culture. To support the development of innovative productions and collaborate with talents and new directors he created ARDITA FILM.