Jacopo Spano'
Directing
Biography
Jacopo Spanó, born in 2006 in Liguria, began making his first animated short films at a very young age using stop-motion techniques. At the age of 13, he started working as an assistant director for local productions. Between 2020 and 2023, he created several stylistic exercises through which he approached narrative filmmaking and directing. In 2024, at the age of 17, driven by his dream of cinema, he moved alone to Rome, where he completed high school. Between 2023 and 2025, collaborating with various collectives and productions, he directed four short films: L’UOMO CHE FOTOGRAFÓ LA DONNA PIÚ BELLA DEL MONDO, MERDA D’ARTISTA, L’UOMO PIÚ ODIATO DEL MONDO, and I PROBLEMATICI, ovvero: un amico e un’amica. His short films have been screened at the RIFF, Cinema Troisi, GOGA Film Fest, and Voci Fuoricampo, as well as at several film showcases throughout Italy and abroad. In 2025, he began working with various production companies and organizations, including Amazon Prime Video, Avventurosa, and Fosforo. During the same period, in Rome and elsewhere, he attended workshops, artistic residencies, and filmmaking labs. In November 2025, he won both the “Best Director” award and the “Best Short Film” award in the 42HRS category at the AS Film Festival. In February 2026, he won the “Pigneto Film Festival Award” at the Pianeta Mare Film Festival. The cinema of Jacopo Spanó is austere and deeply connected to the territory where he grew up, resulting in a dry, provincial perspective. His filmmaking draws heavily from Soviet and cinéma vérité traditions — from Sergei Eisenstein to Dziga Vertov — as well as from the French New Wave, particularly filmmakers such as François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard. His work seeks to take simple situations and overturn them, attempting to deconstruct the canonical grammar of cinema.
Known For
A documentary which explores the life and the career of Michelangelo Antonioni, one of the greatest Italian directors, through archival footage and interviews.
I Am Not God But I Am Michelangelo Antonioni
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White Wolf
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Ci vuole del tempo
The life of a high-society art curator in Turin ends both in a professional and personal downward spiral when she discovers that her fiancé has suddenly and inexplicably turned into an octopus.
Un polpo, ovvero: breve manuale per districarsi dalla malasorte nelle situazioni meno idonee
He is engaged to his best friend. He and she are great friends, and they love each other very much. One day he will be kicked out of the house by her friend, and it will be she who will host him to sleep, with all the consequences of the case.
I Problematici, ovvero: un amico e un'amica
MADE FOR THE 48 HOUR FILM PROJECT: Fabio Ansaldi is a former musician, artist with great genius, who has now decided to be an administrator condominium: he is interviewed. During the interview there is a copovolgimento of roles. The artist will impart The tasks to be performed by interviewers with the aim of giving them an artist experience.
Merda D'artista
A detective is hired by a strange client to find out the truth behind the birth date of Ana Inosculerb, the most hated man in the world". A man so hated that not even his name can be named without being persecuted by society, a man so hated that his life was not even worth living.
The most hated man in the world
In a tense waiting room, a group of young people receives a mysterious memory card tied to a forbidden project. When a goverment officer bursts in, old connections resurface and everyone is forced to choose between obedience and rebellion.
Razza già finita senza neanche cominciare (Dopo la rivoluzione)
A boy who is devastated by a missed date with a girl is watching something very unusual in the driveway below his house.
SIGARETTE CRUDE: Le conseguenze dell'odio
A hitman from China arrives in Rome to kidnap Irene, the daughter of an official who is guilty of leaving debts unpaid to the mafia, but things will not go as planned.
Shoot on the sicario
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Euridice
Pauli, a bartender at the Crossroad Pub, is interested in Rick and Tom, two long-time friends and regulars who sit next to each other but don’t talk.
A Crossroad's story
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L'Autunno
A very lonely homeless man believes he is the new reincarnation of Christ, and goes around Trastevere (Rome) looking for his three disciples who will follow him in his sermons in search of change in the world.
S O N O G L I A L T R I
Tommaso is a photographer recognized worldwide for his shots. One night he decides to take one of his visits to take several photos, but ends up photographing a woman... the most beautiful in the world. But the real question is, can anyone see this picture?
The man who photographed the most beautiful woman in the world
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M.T. - Mar Terreno
A man wakes up somewhere and he doesn't know where, he's in the purgatory. A sperimental short film that I've made because i liked the place where it was filmed
Nowhere Man
The Latins used to say "Time that devours everything". When Stefano, a depressed former professor, discovers the exact date of his death, he will decide to meet the most important person in his life for one last time.
Long Time no see
Two friends catch up in a Paris apartment, each under the impression that the place belongs to the other. As they try to unravel who the flat actually belongs to, a woman’s sudden arrival at the door forces them to hide, trapping them inside a heartbreaking family secret that isn't theirs to know.
LA MAISON D'AUTRES, c'est-a'-dire: un coupable et un coupable
This is the story of Guido, an aspiring priest who committed suicide due to a crisis of faith.