Niccolò Gentili and Ignacio Paurici

Niccolò Gentili
Niccolò Gentili was born in Florence in 1991. He began to study acting at the age of 16, and made his debut in Una vita da sogno in 2011. He starred in other films and TV series such as: Maicol Jecson, Come fai sbagli, Matrimoni e altre Follie, C’era una volta studio uno. He moved to Rome in 2011 and has been studying for four years under with the Actors Studio honorary member  Danny Lemmo. In 2014 he took part in a directors’ workshop at the New York Film Academy and worked as assistant director on Silvio Muccino’s Le Leggi del Desiderio. In 2016 he took part in the workshop Fare cinema run by Marco Bellocchio and shot his first short film We Wanted To Make Pictures. In 2017 he directed is second short Paradise.

Ignacio Paurici
Ignacio Paurici was born in Buenos Aires (Argentina), where he graduated in Law and undertook his theatrical and cinematic training at the Andamio 90 Theatre School, run by Alejandra Boero, and at the Universidad del Cine. He made his debut as an actor in fringe productions in Buenos Aires, while his first cinema experience was in the film Callas Forever by Franco Zeffirelli. He has been living in Rome since 2002, where he has been working as an assistant director to Marco Carniti, followed by a long collaboration with Franco Zeffirelli. He has also worked as assistant director to Giuseppe Bertolucci, and in 2015 he was the artistic curator of the Festival of theatre and cinema dedicated to him. He continues to study acting with Danny Lemmo, a member of the Actors Studio.

Filmography (as directors):
Niccolò Gentili
2017 – Volevamo Fare U’ Cinema
2017 – We Wanted To Make Pictures
2017 – Paradiso
2018 – Non è una bufala

Ignacio Paurici
2017 – Paradiso
2018 – Non è una bufala