Cosimo Messeri

Cosimo Messeri was born in Fiesole in 1985, but he has lived in Rome all his life. After being assistant director to Nanni Moretti and Carlo Mazzacurati, he went on to write, direct, and act in the short films Zeldman (2006), awarded the Best First Film and Critics' Prize at the Valdarno Cinema Fedic Festival; and Le Jour J (2008), as well as the self-produced feature Detesto L'elettronica Stop (2008), for which he won the Prize for Best Acting Debut at the Sarajevo Film Festival. He composes, plays, and sings in the band Plastic Macs.