Person

Andrea Gatopoulos

Directing

Known for: Directing

He is a film director, producer and distributor. He was born in Pescara (Abruzzo, Italy) and lives in Rome, where he graduated cum laude in 2016 in Modern Literature with the thesis "Virtual reality and image culture in the civilization of entertainment". He founded the production company called Il Varco, the distribution Gargantua Film and the residency Nouvelle Bug. His film productions were featured in more than 500 festivals all around the world including Cannes Quinzaine, Locarno, Venice SIC@SIC, Camerimage, Rotterdam IFFR, and many EFA and Oscar Qualifying Festivals. In 2020 he studied in Werner Herzog's workshop for his film Accelerator in Leticia, Colombia, in which he developed the filmed correspondence "Letters to Herzog" and the short film "Flores del precipicio", featured on FranceTV. He was among the finalists of Premio Zavattini 2021/2022. His short film "Happy New Year, Jim" premiered at Cannes Film Festival during the 54. Quinzaine des Réalisateurs. In 2023, he was chosen to participate in Locarno Spring Academy with Radu Jude where he shot "Eschaton Ad", that premiered in Locarno that same year. In August 2023, he participated to Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Creator's Lab in Yucatan, Mexico. In November 2023, his debut feature documentary "A Stranger Quest" was presented at the 41. Turin Film Festival. He was invited to be part of Berlinale Talents in 2024 and he is a voting member of EFA - European Film Academy as since 2024. In 2024, his new film "The Eggregores' Theory" opened Venice Film Critics' Week, and was nominated as the European Film Awards candidate from ZINEBI Film Festival where it won the Grand Award. In 2025, the film was nominated for David di Donatello and won a Silver Ribbon for the experimentation. His feature film in development "The Hallucinations", after TFL ScriptLab, won the CNC Award at Cannes La Residence.