Marco Vinz Pinnavaia
Directing
Biography
Marco Vinz Pinnavaia is an Italian writer and filmmaker born in 1993. In 2018, he published his first novel, the spaghetti western Puerto de Luna. He has lived in Milan, Lyon, Paris, and Rome, where he founded the Chuormo Collective, which promotes cinema through productions, screenings, events, and festivals from its headquarters in Testaccio. After attending a screenwriting course at the Accademia del Cinema Renoir, he began writing movies and series. Through his documentaries — Dreamland, Volare Volare!, Aleph, The Tales of Muzungu — he loves telling incredible stories on the margin of society. Il Mondo è Nostro, produced by Dianto Film, is his first fiction short film. In 2024, he took part in the Cinemabruzzo Campus artistic residency, where he co-directed a short-doc about the mountains entitled Davide, Where Are You? He is also the artistic director of the Felice Film Festival. His second novel, "Paris is a party", will be published soon. Between a movie and book he keep on his quest in the Universe…
Known For
Asia sings, Medhi writes the music: together they dream of making it big with their music. But the gun found under the pillow of Youssef, Medhi's little brother, will catapult them into a rap-fuelled adventure involving suburban thugs, Siberian gangsters and robberies in Chinese massage parlours. Will the two manage to shoot the video clip for “Il Mondo è Nostro” (The World is Ours), the song that will be their big break?
The World Is Ours
Titus lives in his own dystopia. When he embraces the abyss within him and all his contradictions, he begins to dance. He is the madman who manages to grasp the truths that elude others: man's complex search for identity.
Titovskij
The first day of a boy fresh out of SERT, searching for beauty on the shores of Lake Garda. A melancholy look at the value of trust, the story of an impossible intimacy between two people unable to get close.
Bianca
In May, all Gypsy communities gather in Camargue to worship Saint Sara Kali. Following Esméralda and her family – a group of French Manouche – we will immerse ourselves in the pilgrimage in search of the true spirit of the Gens du Voyage, the travelling people.
¡Volare Volare! - Esméralda's Family to the Pilgrimage of Santa Sara in Saintes-Maries-de-la-mer
Two Italians documentarians follow the French Freedom Convoy from Nice to Brussels to witness the protesters' demands against the tyrannical laws imposed by governments during the pandemic. What they will see during this crazy attempt at revolution will go far beyond the boundary between reality and dream...