AndreaGatopoulos

I am a film producer, director and distributor. I was born in Pescara (Abruzzo, Italy) in 1994 and I currently live in Rome, where I graduated cum laude in 2016 in Modern Literature with the thesis “Virtual reality and image culture in the civilization of entertainment�. I founded my publishing house and production company called Il Varco and produced 23 short films, 4 feature films and the edition of 11 books. I’m the artistic director of Il Varco – International Short Film Festival, Italy. I also founded the monthly screening Short Days in Rome and the Abruzzi’s film screening “New Abruzzi Cinema� in Pescara and the film distribution Gargantua Film. My film productions were featured in more than 120 festivals all around the world. As a director, I shot “Materia Celeste� in 2019 and “Polepole� in 2021. In 2020 I worked alongside Werner Herzog for his film Accelerator in Leticia, Colombia, in which I developed the filmed correspondence “Letters to Herzog� and the short film “Flores del precipicio“. I have been selected among the finalists of Premio Zavattini 2021/2022. In 2022 I presented “Happy New Year, Jim“, shot entirely inside videogames and produced by Nieminen film and Naffintusi at the 54. Quinzaine des Réalisateurs during Cannes 2022. In 2023 I participated in Locarno Spring Academy with Radu Jude where I made my film “Eschaton Ad“. In august 2023 I studied with Apichatpong Weerasethakul in his workshop in Yucatan, Mexico.