Giacomo Mantovani


Giacomo Mantovani is an Italian film director, screenwriter, and film producer.

Early life

Mantovani was born in Carpi, Modena. He studied advertising graphics, photography, and applied arts at the M. Fanoli State Institute. After this, he moved to Venice and entered the Accademia di Belle Arti, specializing in new technologies of the arts, following the cinema lessons of Carlo Montanaro. He developed his aim to deepen the learning and discovery of expressive means and techniques through which non-verbal communication is conveyed, producing the short films Fame and 2006. In February 2008, he earned a degree in New Technologies for the Arts with the short film Paranoico, which received much international recognition.

Career

Mantovani moved to London in 2009, where he started working as a director and producer and founded his own production company, Avant-garde Pictures. This produced the award-winning short films Political Asylum and Adamant. Mantovani's approach to filmmaking includes the rigorous use of storyboards.

Filmography