My name is Mattia Fiumani and I am a 38-year-old Italian film director. My passion for film came from working as a cinema projectionist at an arthouse miniplex in Switzerland, Le Zinéma, during my final architecture years. After my studies (Glasgow School of Art, BA Arch UTS Sydney, Architecture Masters EPF Lausanne) I worked for a short while as an architect in Australia and in Egypt. In 2010 I took a course on Film & Directing at the New York University and made my first film, "The Sakakini Palace", a short documentary about a neglected baroque palace in Downtown Cairo, produced by the EU Delegation to Egypt and the Egyptian Ministry of Culture. Between 2010 and 2013 I worked in Berlin as a set designer and as a production designer on various commercial ads (Toyota, Tommy Hilfiger, Swisscom, among others) and went on practicing as a director in the underground Berlin scene with an international bunch of young directors, photographers and musicians. In 2014 I directed my first high-budget music video in Los Angeles, Busdriver's single "Colonize The Moon" (prod. Big Dada/Ninja Tune) and several short films for producers DeLaurentiis. In 2015 I relocated in Italy and kept on collaborating with numerous agencies, record labels and artists from around the world. My latest short film "Notebook" received a Best Director Honorable Mention Award at the Los Angeles Film Awards and other accolades at festivals such as the Independent Shorts Awards in LA and the Madrid Indie Film Festival, and got me reunited with LA rapper Busdriver who wrote the script and the music for the film. I am still based in Italy today, in the beautiful Marche region, where I have my studio and a network of collaborators with whom I often develop and produce both local and international projects.
CONTACT
info@mattiafiumani.com
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SELECTED WORKS
Union Birrai Artigianali Italia (prod. NOLAND) - Advertisement, Italy, 2020
Notebook (prod. Ninja Tune, Brainfeeder Films, WhiteFrameFilm, Fiumani) - Short film, USA / Italy, 2020
Maddai by Caponetti (prod. Carosello Records) - Music video, Italy, 2020
Marybloom SS 21 (prod. Fiumani) - Advertisement, Italy, 2020
If The Street Are My Home (prod. Fiumani) - Short film, USA / Italy, 2020
Monami by Irma (prod. Universal Music) - Music video, Portugal, 2019
So Far So Food (prod. DUDE) - Documentary, Italy, 2019
Volcom Road Rager (prod. Big Air Lab) - Advertisement, Italy, 2018
Bausch + Lomb (prod. PopUp Studio) - Advertisement, Italy, 2017
VANS Plaza Sessions (prod. Big Air Lab) - Advertisement, Italy, 2017
Dj Vibe 35v50 (prod. We Are Music) - Short documentary, Portugal, 2017
Emerald City by Jimetta Rose & Georgia Anne Muldrow (prod. Temporary Forever) - Music video, USA, 2016
Brews Brothers (prod. DeLaurentiis, Paramount Pictures) - Feature film, USA, 2016
