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Paolo Laganà

  • Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
  • Actor
  • Director
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Paolo Laganà is an Italian filmmaker. They showed a passion for acting at a young age and starred in many plays staged by an independent theater company in their native city. At the same time they develop an interest in filmmaking and make their first experiments on super 8.

After art school they moved to New York where they took acting classes under teacher and stage director John Strasberg (son of Lee Strasberg).

They are a member of the Millenium Film Inc., an association based in lower Manhattan, where they shown their first film experiments. Dedicated to the exhibition, study, and practice of experimental film, video, and new media, the Millenium Film Inc. was founded in the 60's and resisted until nowadays. Ken Jacobs was within the founders. At the beginning Jacobs was the artistic director and curator of Millennium Film, and has then been reelected in 2012. Other members of the board are Tom Jarmusch, Jay Hudson, Howard Guttenplan, Stephanie Wuertz.

In 2009 Laganà moved to Bucharest (Romania), where they enter the flourishing Romanian film industry, working as either production assistant or assistant director in films such as Everybody in Our Family (2012), directed by Radu Jude and selected at Berlinale 2012 in the Forum section, and Of Snails and Men (2012) directed by Tudor Giurgiu.

They collaborated with screenwriter and director Gustave Reininger (Miami Vice, Crime Story, Corso: The Last Beat).

In 2012 they are involved in the pre-production of Corneliu Porumboiu 's third feature "When evening falls on Bucharest or Metabolism" (after 12:08 East of Bucharest and Police, Adjective), and in the shooting of 'Andrei Gruszniczki' 's second feature, "Quod Erat Demostrandum" (jury's prize at the Rome International Film Festival).
BornOctober 28, 1986
BornOctober 28, 1986
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    Known for

    Hermann Müller in Erwartungen (2021)
    Erwartungen
    Short
    • Director
    • 2021
    Missing Fragments of a Murder (2013)
    Missing Fragments of a Murder
    Short
    • Director(as a different name)
    • 2013
    Flag (2012)
    Flag
    Short
    • Director(as a different name)
    • 2012
    Adriano in Ricostruzione di un incontro (2010)
    Ricostruzione di un incontro
    Short
    • Director(as a different name)
    • 2010

    Credits

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    Second Unit or Assistant Director



    • CockyBoys
      6.0
      TV Series
      • first assistant director (as a different name)
      • 2018
    • François Sagat, Dato Foland, and Sean Ford in It is Not the Pornographer That is Perverse... (2018)
      It is Not the Pornographer That is Perverse...
      5.1
      • first assistant director (as a different name)
      • 2018
    • Ruben Litzky and Jesse Charif in Refugee's Welcome (2017)
      Refugee's Welcome
      6.8
      Short
      • first assistant director (as a different name)
      • 2017
    • Summer's Over (2016)
      Summer's Over
      6.9
      • assistant director
      • 2016
    • Cel ales (2015)
      Cel ales
      7.0
      • assistant director
      • 2015
    • Horse Power (2014)
      Horse Power
      7.0
      Short
      • assistant director
      • 2014
    • Florin Piersic Jr., Sorin Leoveanu, and Ofelia Popii in Quod Erat Demonstrandum (2013)
      Quod Erat Demonstrandum
      7.2
      • assistant director (as Paolo Lagana)
      • 2013
    • Diana Avramut in When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism (2013)
      When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism
      6.1
      • pre-production assistant director (uncredited)
      • 2013
    • Andi Vasluianu and Monica Barladeanu in Of Snails and Men (2012)
      Of Snails and Men
      7.2
      • additional material directed by
      • assistant director (as Paolo Lagana, uncredited)
      • 2012

    Actor



    • Darkroom (2019)
      Darkroom
      5.0
      • Cruising scene extra (uncredited)
      • 2019
    • Cel ales (2015)
      Cel ales
      7.0
      • Security Guard (as Paolo Lagana)
      • 2015
    • Horse Power (2014)
      Horse Power
      7.0
      Short
      • Un vecin (uncredited)
      • 2014
    • Francesco Scianna and Monica Barladeanu in Itaker - Vietato agli italiani (2012)
      Itaker - Vietato agli italiani
      5.9
      • Impiegato (as Paolo Lagana)
      • 2012
    • Slice of Pizza on a Wheelchair
      Short
      • Man on the Wheelchair (uncredited)
      • 2012
    • Everybody in Our Family (2012)
      Everybody in Our Family
      7.4
      • Italian at the farmacy (as Paolo Lagana)
      • 2012

    Director



    • Hermann Müller in Erwartungen (2021)
      Erwartungen
      Short
      • Director
      • 2021
    • Missing Fragments of a Murder (2013)
      Missing Fragments of a Murder
      Short
      • Director (as a different name)
      • 2013
    • Slice of Pizza on a Wheelchair
      Short
      • Director (as a different name)
      • 2012
    • Flag (2012)
      Flag
      Short
      • Director (as a different name)
      • 2012
    • Adriano in Ricostruzione di un incontro (2010)
      Ricostruzione di un incontro
      Short
      • Director (as a different name)
      • 2010

    Personal details

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    • Official site
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    • Alternative name
      • Paolo Lagana
    • Height
      • 5′ 10½″ (1.79 m)
    • Born
      • October 28, 1986
      • Italy
    • Publicity listings
      • 2 Interviews

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    • Gender / Gender identity
      • Non-binary
    • Pronouns
      • he/they, they/them
    • Sexual orientation
      • Queer

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      Moved from Italy to Romania in 2009.
    • Quotes
      Many Romanians might be homophobic, but without realizing that homosexuals are all around.

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