Giulia Gandini
Directing
Biography
Giulia Gandini is a London-based writer/director originally from Italy. She is the series director of SHAKE (8x25 min episodes), the teen-drama series inspired by Shakespeare’s Othello produced by Lucky Red and Rai Fiction. She also directed 2nd unit on new Sky action thriller THE LAZARUS PROJECT. She recently directed the pilot episode of CABALA (6×25 min episodes), the urban-fantasy series produced by Cattleya and Rai Fiction. She was the director on the 3rd season of teen-drama TV series JAMS (20×25 min episodes) for Italian national state broadcaster RAI. Her short film MY TIME was long-listed for the Academy Awards in 2020 and won a Young Director Award in Cannes 2020.
Known For
Created from the novels by award winning crime writer Ann Cleeves, Shetland follows DI Jimmy Perez and his team as they investigate crime within the close knit island community. In this isolated and sometimes inhospitable environment, the team have to rely on a uniquely resourceful style of policing.
Shetland
Bert and Sam have been living in Spain for the last few years, Sam in the rolling hills and Bert in the slightly less idyllic setting of a prison cell. After a decade behind bars, a cancer diagnosis allows Bert to walk free on compassionate discharge. With only a few weeks to live, she resolves to take on a multi-million-pound art heist that will test her mettle, and prove her worth. Sam reluctantly lets Bert back into her life, and quickly finds herself returning to the life of crime she's tried to leave behind.
Frauds
"Cabala" is a collection of stories on the edge of reality, in which each episode tells the vicissitudes of protagonists who find themselves forced to relate to absolutely unprovable facts and to reach the extreme consequences of what they decide to believe in.
Kabbalah
A 6 minute short film about a 12-year-old girl and her first period.
My Time
A house stands aside from all the others, surrounded by legends and myths. Ophelia, 11 years old, decides to enter: what awaits on the other side of the door is nothing like she would have expected.
The House
Lily has been homeless for a year and a half. We gave her a phone to tell us her story.
Home Stream
Out in the far reaches of the Piccadilly Line, Julia starts her journey home. But when the doors close and the train pulls away, she realizes that she isn't alone.