Giovanni Tortorici
Directing
Biography
Giovanni Tortorici born in Palermo, Italy. He worked as assistant director trainee on the set of Luca Guadagnino’s series “We Are Who We Are”. He then continued his collaboration with Guadagnino as camera operator and assistant director on short films and videoclips. He made his feature debut as a director with Diciannove.
Known For
Two American kids who live on a U.S. military base in Italy explore friendship, first love, identity, and all the messy exhilaration and anguish of being a teenager.
We Are Who We Are
Leonardo, a 19-year-old student, leaves his hometown of Palermo to study economics in London. He soon grows restless and enrolls at the University of Siena to study literature before dropping out of school to study classics on his own. The following year, he travels to Turin where he meets a man who will help him on his journey of self-discovery.
Nineteen
After witnessing the murder of their mother thirty years ago, a man and his sister struggle with challenges of their adult lives.
Secret Journey
Explores the dynamics between two local sixteen-year-olds, Ketty and Giulio, who together build an exclusive friendship, a shared refuge in their search for freedom, away from the judging eye of the adult world.