Paolo Gaudio
Directing
Biography
Always interested in fantasy and Genre Cinema, he immediately began experimenting with animation techniques. In 2010 he made his first stop-motion short film, The Melancholy Pains of Grom, which was presented in the official selection at Sitges - International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia. In 2011 he participated in the collective film P.O.E. - Poetry of Eerie with his adaptation of E.A. Poe's The Black Cat in claymation. He made his feature film debut in 2015 with Fantasticherie di un passeggiatore solitario[3], shot between 2010 and 2011 but released in Italian theaters since November 26, 2015 and on home video with CG Entertainment in 2017 in a dvd and booklet edition. The film is a very rare Italian example of mixed technique[5]: live action and stop-motion. With this film, Gaudio made his mark on the International Festival circuit, receiving, among others, the Grand Prix at the Samain du cinéma fantastique in Nice, the Audience Award at CineFantasy - Festival internacional de cinema fantastique in São Paulo, Brazil, and the Mario Bava Award for Best First Feature at the 2015 Fantafestival. In 2015 he was selected in competition at the Future Film Festival, after many years of absence of Italian films. From 2015 to 2019, he is in charge of the stop motion animation department at Rainbow CGI, where Looney Foodz! was born, a claymation short film that won the Silver Ribbon for Best Animated Film in 2018. In 2019, Gaudio is also teaching stop motion animation at the Master's degree program in Languages and Techniques for Animation Cinema at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. He is currently a lecturer in directing, screenwriting and stop-motion animation at Rainbow Academy in Rome. Editor-in-chief of the online film magazine InGenereCinema, which specializes in the culture of horror, the fantastic, the bizarre and the extraordinary, he is involved as director in the production of Il Giro dell'Horror, a docuseries created by Luca Ruocco on Italian horror, currently in production, which boasts guests such as Domiziano Cristopharo, Fabio Frizzi and Lamberto Bava. In 2022, to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the release of P.O.E. - Poetry of Eerie, Gaudio re-edits, re-edits and restores his adaptation The Black Cat, producing and distributing The Black reCat finding its way into the line-ups of the world's major fantasy film festivals (to name a few: Bifff - Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival, Fantastic Zagreb, Macabro: Mexico City international horror film festival, H.P. Lovecraft film festival & CthulhuCon). Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
Known For
A mentally disturbed ex soldier tries to start a new life and get a new job after a nightmarish experience during the war.
Doll Syndrome
Horror anthology movie about the stories of Edgar Allan Poe.
Echoes From The Grave
In a school of magical arts, Violetta and her classmates are intent on listening to their first levitation lesson. But the exercise just doesn't succeed to Violetta...
La Magia del Coraggio
Three characters in three different ages are united by a dream of freedom and a small masterpiece of literature. A journey through the mysterious and timeless aspirations, sufferings and 'Reveries' of a poet, of a young student and a child lost in the woods.
Reveries of a Solitary Walker
A man loses his sanity due to alcohol while being stalked by the sinister figure of a black cat.
The Black reCat
Poetry of Eerie features 13 Poe-inspired short segments directed by a cadre of international filmmakers, filmed under tight constraints, offering abstract, atmospheric takes on the macabre.
P.O.E. Poetry of Eerie
A young little orphan loses herself in the Woods of Vain Things. In her journey, she finds an old log cabin: it is soon revealed to be the dwelling of Gilbert, the prize-builder, victim of a strange spell.
L'incantesimo di Gilbert
In the San Francisco of 1919, a man is standing on the ledge of a building ready to jump. Desperate, he relives in his memories the absurd and shocking episode that brought him to the brink of suicide: his encounter with the monstrous and mythological Great Ancient One, DAGON.
Dagon
A weird and bizarre clockwork puppet tries to escape from a small box that holds him prisoner, while a mysterious tormentor keeps his efforts, pleased.