Andrea Gatopoulos

He is a film producer, director and distributor. He was born in Pescara (Abruzzo, Italy) in 1994 and currently lives in Rome, where he graduated cum laude in 2016 in Modern Literature with the thesis "Virtual reality and image culture in the civilization of entertainment". He founded the production company called Il Varco and produced 16 short films, 3 feature films and the edition of 5 books. He's the artistic director of Il Varco - International Short Film Festival, Italy. He 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. His film productions were featured in more than 120 festivals all around the world including Venice SIC@SIC, Camerimage, Rotterdam IFFR, In the Palace, Drama, Cyprus, Rome Film Festival. As a director, he shot "Onyricon" in 2015, "Spettri" in 2017, "Materia Celeste" in 2019 and "Polepole" in 2021. In 2020 he worked alongside Werner Herzog for his film Accelerator in Leticia, Colombia, in which he developed the filmed correspondence "Letters to Herzog". He was among the finalists of Premio Zavattini 2021/2022. His last short film "Happy New Year, Jim" premiered at Cannes Film Festival during the 54. Quinzaine des Réalisateurs.