Edoardo Zucchetti
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Director
- Writer
Director and author from Florence - Italy. He staged both Opera and Theatre, and directed documentaries between Europe and the United States.
A Literature and Philosophy graduate, he discovered theatre in his early 20s and started to collaborate as a student with the marketing office of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Opera House and the Napoli Teatro Festival. Dreaming of cinema, he started learning the secrets of the craft shadowing established masters and young directors between Florence, Rome and London. He worked as assistant of Marco Gandini, Franco Zeffirelli, Jonathan Miller and Terry Gilliam for Opera; Angelo Savelli, Cristina Pezzoli and Daniele Salvo for Prose; Pupi Avati, Ron Howard and Michael Bay for Cinema. In 2015 he began staging plays for Intercity Festival, Pupi & Fresedde, Nelson Mandela Forum, Estate Fiesolana, and directing opera productions for Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Opera House, Festival della Valle d'Itria, New Generation Festival, Belcanto Opera Festival in Japan.
Since 2007 he has researched and given voice to hidden stories as an independent documentary maker, filming backstage and documentaries that tell the life of artists, places and communities. His feature debut "Patti in Florence", about the American singer-songwriter Patti Smith and her relationship to Italy, was shot over the course of ten years and opened the 61st Festival dei Popoli in 2020 as the first step on a journey to discover music, art and cinema which found its continuation in subsequent works: "Daniele Rustioni e l'Eroica", "JR a Palazzo Strozzi", "Michael Spyres: The Crazy Life of an Opera Singer" with the friendly participation of Terry Gilliam, and "Pagliacci di Zeffirelli, un passo nel futuro" with Placido Domingo (premiered at the 18th Edition of the Rome Film Fest).
A Literature and Philosophy graduate, he discovered theatre in his early 20s and started to collaborate as a student with the marketing office of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Opera House and the Napoli Teatro Festival. Dreaming of cinema, he started learning the secrets of the craft shadowing established masters and young directors between Florence, Rome and London. He worked as assistant of Marco Gandini, Franco Zeffirelli, Jonathan Miller and Terry Gilliam for Opera; Angelo Savelli, Cristina Pezzoli and Daniele Salvo for Prose; Pupi Avati, Ron Howard and Michael Bay for Cinema. In 2015 he began staging plays for Intercity Festival, Pupi & Fresedde, Nelson Mandela Forum, Estate Fiesolana, and directing opera productions for Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Opera House, Festival della Valle d'Itria, New Generation Festival, Belcanto Opera Festival in Japan.
Since 2007 he has researched and given voice to hidden stories as an independent documentary maker, filming backstage and documentaries that tell the life of artists, places and communities. His feature debut "Patti in Florence", about the American singer-songwriter Patti Smith and her relationship to Italy, was shot over the course of ten years and opened the 61st Festival dei Popoli in 2020 as the first step on a journey to discover music, art and cinema which found its continuation in subsequent works: "Daniele Rustioni e l'Eroica", "JR a Palazzo Strozzi", "Michael Spyres: The Crazy Life of an Opera Singer" with the friendly participation of Terry Gilliam, and "Pagliacci di Zeffirelli, un passo nel futuro" with Placido Domingo (premiered at the 18th Edition of the Rome Film Fest).