Francesco Cinquemani

He became author, screenwriter and director after a long career as a journalist and director of magazines. He is working on the movie The Poison Rose with John Travolta, Morgan Freeman, Forest Withaker and on Trinity of the Soul, a series of documentary-films shot in Italy and India. His latest film Beyond The Edge with Antonio Banderas is released worldwide. Andròn - The Black Labyrinth with Alec Baldwin, Danny Glover and Skin (presented among other festivals at Trieste+Fiction, Los Angeles-Italia, Supernova in Manchester, Ferrara Film Festival, ICFF in Toronto) represent his debut in a fiction feature film. He have written Memento Reset, the remake of the movie by Chistopher Nolan. He is director and co-author of Offstagw - Lontano dal palco a long feature documentary on a group of prison inmate-actors that was presented at the Noir in Festival, Nastri d'Argento (Italian Silver Ribbon Awards) and at the Los Angeles-Italia film festival. He is author and director of Light News the cinema show of the prestigious Istituto Luce Cinecittà. He is creator and author for RAI of the cult sitcom Virus (59 episodes shot from 2010 to 2012). He is co-author of Buio at tv-Movie for Mediaset with Valentina Cervi, Andrea Osvart, Margareth Madè and Kasia Smutniak. He has written and co-directed the program "Ciufoli tra le stelle" for Sky Cinema. He wrote, produced and/or directed more than seventy short films and has participated at numerous Festivals both Italian and International (Critics Week in Cannes, Giornate degli autori - Venice Days, Roma Fiction Fest, Locarno Film Festival, Los Angeles-Italia Festival, RIFF - Rome Independent Film Festival, Fantafestival, Lille Short Film Festival, Cinecittà Digital Award). He directed various advertising campaign including fashion videos for Bulgari and is author of the Antimafia campaign Ritroviamo l'onore (with Nino Frassica, Loredana Cannata, Marcello Mazzarella and Corrado Fortuna). At theatre he directed the Compagnia Stabile Assai, the oldest Theatre Companyof of prisoners-actors.