Born in
Fano, Italy, he currently lives in New York. In 2006 he got a degree in film directing at the National School of Film
Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. His first short-movie is ''Director's cut – segmenti di una notte
(2002). After that, he produced, edited and directed Untitled – Storie senza nome
: this work won some national awards, like the 'Jury's prize
in a contest named Autogrill al Cinema''', by
Autogrill e
Cinecittà Holding. The award ceremony took place in July 2003 at the
Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, Italy. The same year, he made ''L'amore. Quasi. (Oppure no)''. This short comedy features the comedian
Alessandra Faiella. Within the first two years at the
Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia he shot some shorts, filmed in 35mm:
Fragile (2005) with
Luigi Diberti and
Il Diavolo (2006), inspired by a novel written by
Guy de Maupassant, featuring
Angela Goodwin and
Pietro Bontempo. This short has been screened and awarded in many festival, like the
Festival del cinema di Salerno (2007). In 2006 and 2008 he worked as assistant director for the
Academy Award-winning director
Paolo Sorrentino in the movies
The Family Friend and
Il divo. in 2007,
Noëlle Benhamou wrote an article about this short and its author, named ''"Il diavolo (2005) d'Andrea Lodovichetti: du conte noir à la fable métaphysique“''.
Sotto il mio giardino, short movie In 2007, he shot his thesys at the
Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. The title of the short is
Sotto il mio giardino aka Under my garden based on a novel by
Roberto Santini. This short has been awarded many times in festivals all around the world. Beside the Italian Golden Globe
Globo d'oro, won in the best short category, he won the Babelgum Online Film Festival (2008) with the prize "looking for a genius award". The jury was headed by
Spike Lee, and the ceremony took place in Cannes. In three years, achieved about 30 international awards in many festivals, like the
Beijing Student Film Festival (2008), the
Rhode Island International Film Festival, the
Fike International Film Festival (2009), the
Giffoni film festival (2008), the
Buffalo Niagara Film Festival (2010), the
Berkeley Video and Film Festival (2009), the
Fort Collins TriMedia Festival (2009), the
Garden State Film Festival (2009), the
Seattle True Independent Film Festival (2009), the
Golden Knight Malta International Film Festival 2009. Some official selections, also, like
Festival di Tangeri 2008 (Morocco),
Sleepwalkers Film Fest 2008 (Estonia),
Valley Film Festival 2009 (USA),
Olympia Film Fest 2009 (Greek),
In The Palace 2009 (Bulgary),
MediaWave Festival 2009 (Hungary),
Las Palmas Film Fest 2009 (Canary Island),
Mar De Plata Film Festival 2009 (Argentina),
San Joaquin Society 2009 (USA), il
Las Vegas International Film Festival 2009 (USA), il
Radical Frame Film Fest 2010 (Germany),
Detroit Independent Film Festival 2011 (USA).
Documentaries In 2012 he produced and directed
In viaggio per un sorriso – Tour Spagna 2012 and in 2014
Missione Ruanda, about the activities of the Ngo
Sports Around The World in Africa. This work won the Festival internazionale del Cinema Sportivo 2014
Sport Movies & TV - Milano International FICTS Fest and the
Overtime Film Festival (2015).
Other In 2013 the New York magazine
UCAN! published an article about him. In 2014 the CEO of the social network
Stage 32 Richard Botto asked him for an article about his experience with the
Academy Awards winner director
Paolo Sorrentino. == Filmography ==