Bio

Gianluca Matarrese (1980) was born in Torino and moved to Paris in 2002 to study cinema and theater. He graduated in History and Critics of North American Cinema at the University of Torino and Paris VIII, also graduating at the Ecole Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris. In 2008 he started working in French television, as a writer and director for a comedy series on OCS networks broadcast until 2012. Then he continued as writer, director and segment producer in entertainment department for moreover than 25 programs and all French networks. In 2019 his documentary Fuori Tutto (Rossofuoco Films, Agat Films, France Télévisions) won the award for Best Italian Documentary at the Torino Film Festival. His film La dernière séance (The Last Chapter) had its world premiere at the last Venice International Film Critics’ Week, winning the Queer Lion Award. The film has been selected at IDFA, Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival, and keeps touring in other international festivals. The film has recently been broadcast on SKY Italy networks. He directed, for France Télévisions, the musical documentary on the singer Barbara Pravi, representative of the Eurovision Contest 2020.

His latest film Fashion Babylon (Bellota Films & France Télévisions) premiered at CPH:DOX and Hot Docs and more than 20 festivals around the world. It has been broadcast in 10 countries.

His new film Il Posto (A Steady Job) (Altara Films, Bocalupo Films & ARTE / NDR), co-directed with Mattia Colombo premiered in Vision du Réel and Hot Docs, DMZ in South Korea, Hainan Film Festival, Festival dei Popoli, Thessaloniki Documentary Film festival, etc.  and it’s currently touring in several international festivals. 

His short film Pinned Into a Dress co-directed with Guillaume Thomas opens the International Critics’ Week in Venice 2022.

His works in 2023: Les beaux parleurs presented at Biografilm will be broadcast on France 2 in November, the film L’Expérience Zola was presented at the Giornate degli Autori at the last Venice Film Festival, and the national theatrical release is entrusted to Luce Cinecittà. The film has just begun its tour of the international festivals premiering at IDFA.