Roberto Cavallini

Biography

I hold a PhD in Visual Cultures from Goldsmiths University of London, nominated European Emerging Producer 2020 (Jihlava DFF), I am an EAVE 2021 Producer workshop graduate, Rotterdam Producer Lab fellow 2023 and voting member of the European Film Academy. With a professional academic background as lecturer in the fields of visual cultures, documentary practices and film studies, I work in the creative development and financing of fiction films & documentaries. After studying Art History at Cà Foscari University of Venice, in 2010 I was awarded a PhD in Visual Cultures from Goldsmiths, University of London, with a dissertation on Pier Paolo Pasolini's cinema and poetry. Between 2012 and 2016 I was Assistant Professor in Film and media Studies at Yasar University (Izmir, Turkey), where I taught Documentary Cinema and Visual Cultures and supervised the Documentary practices lab and Short film lab. I published essays and articles in academic journals on Italian cinema, documentary and essay films, on the cinema of Pier Paolo Pasolini, Michelangelo Antonioni, Pietro Germi, Lisandro Alonso, Apichaptong Weerasethakul (Studies in European Cinema, New Cinemas, Cinema e Storia, Aniki), editor of the anthology 'Requiem for a Nation: religion and politics in Post-war Italian Cinema' (Mimesis International). Since 2006, I devise, fund-raise and organize several art projects and residencies, publications and film programmes, such as Leaving Room: cinema & migration (Cinemateque de Tangiers, Apartment Istanbul, Institut Francais in Palermo, Goldsmiths London). In 2016 I established Altrove Films (Trento, Italy), an independent production company producing films, documentaries and new media. Recents projects released include: 'J' by Gaetano Liberti, which world-premiered at the 29th FIDMarseille, International Competition (July 2018) and IFF Rotterdam (2019) and HOA by Marco Zuin (Italy/ Vietnam) which world-premiered at the 59th Festival dei Popoli (Firenze), November 2018. Since 2019 I work as producer at Albolina Film, focusing on fiction feature films as well as documentaries for the international market. Since 2021 I am Associate Professor in Cinema studies and practice at LABA Trentino and Adjunct Professor in History of Italian Cinema at Boston University, Italy Programs (Padua).