Samuele Rossi

Passionate about cinema and literature. He graduated with Honors in 2007 with a Bachelor's Degree in Arts and Modern Literature. Then he graduated in Filmmaking at Rosebud International Film School in Rome in 2011 and in Screenwriting in New York Film Academy, in New York in 2014, thanks a schoolarship promoted by Italian Cultural Institute of New York won because of his First Feature Movie "The Way Back Home". In 2008 he started working frequently as assistant director on important Italian movies set. In 2010 he co-produced, directed and wrote his first feature movie "La strada verso casa" ("The way back home"). It was presented as International Premiere in International Festival of Rome and in San Paolo International Film Festival in the section "Young Discoveries". The movie was selected in beyond 40 International Festivals and it won 8 National Cinema Awards. In 2011 he founded a new Company Production, always called Echivisivi (www.echivisivi.it). In 2013 he produced and directed his first movie documentary, "La memoria degli ultimi" ("The Last Standing"), reaching a surprising criticism and audience success. The movie was sold in almost 20 countries in all world. In 2016 he produced and directed his second movie documentary "Indro. The man who wrote on the water", about the most important Italian journalist of 20th century, in co-production with Alkermes and in collaboration with Sky Arte. Actually he is post-producing is new movie documentary "Love Biography" and he is developing his new movie "GlassBoy", produced by Solaria Film & Echivisivi, selected by CineKid Junior Co-production Market, winning a Media Europe Fund and Mibact Italian Film Fund. In while he ve always been worked like filmmaker and audiovisual expert in the audiovisual commercial production and he worked for more ten years as like tutor and educator for kids.