contact: elisa.baccolo@gmail.com

Italian filmmaker born in 1991. After a bachelor’s degree in philosophy, she pursued a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience. She graduated from the Documentary Filmmaking course at the Film School Luchino Visconti in Milan. In November 2021 she attended a Film Residency supervised by Werner Herzog (LaSelva). She was selected for the 2021 edition of Premio Zavattini held by AAMOD (Rome, Italy), where she developed a short documentary project that creatively reuses archive materials to tell how congenitally blind people perceive the world. In May 2022 she was selected to take part in a residency in the Republic of Georgia, where she made “Anaklia”, a short documentary that was presented at Laceno D’Oro and Festival Mente Locale, where it won the distribution award for the best short documentary.

She mainly works as a filmmaker, combining her interest in documentary, experimental cinema, and theoretical studies.

FILMOGRPAHY:

• Senza Negazione / short documentary / 2018 / as a director
• La cura e il veleno / short documentary / 2020 / as a director
• Affascin / short fiction / 2020 / as a director
• Pronto sabré si su nombre es violencia / short fiction / 2022
• Anaklia / short documentary / 2022

AWARDS:

• Anaklia / Festival Mente Locale / Vignola / 2022 / Best Short Documentary Film