Andrea Gatopoulos
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Andrea Gatopoulos is a film director and producer born in 1994 in Pescara. He studied cinema with Werner Herzog and Radu Jude. Graduated with honors in 2016 in Literature, Music and Entertainment with the thesis "Virtual reality and culture of the image in the civilisation of entertainment". He is the artistic director of Il Varco - Short Film Festival, twice in the Top 100 of the best festivals on FilmFreeway. He founded the Short Days review and the screening of Abruzzo films "Nuovo Cinema Abruzzese". His productions have been presented in more than 120 festivals including Cannes Quinzaine, Locarno Film Festival, Venice Critics' Week SIC @ SIC, Camerimage, Rotterdam IFFR, In the Palace, Drama, Cyprus, Alice nella città, Nastri d'Argento and David di Donatello.
As a director, he shot "Polepole" in 2021, presented at the Oscar Qualifying Energa Camerimage festival and Visioni Italiane, "Happy new Year, Jim" in 2022, presented at Quinzaine des Réaliseateurs in Cannes Film Festival, and "Eschaton Ad" presented in 2023 at Locarno Film Festival.
