Luca Alverdi
- Editor
- Writer
Luca Alverdi was born in Milan, Italy, in 1965. In 1987, he started
working as an assistant editor in the same city. Over the years, he's
edited many TV commercials for the European, African and Middle Eastern
markets, as well as documentaries, short films for Cinema and
Television, music videos, video-art, video-poetry, video-dance, etc. In
the field of advertising, his collaboration with directors as Marco
Schillaci and Diamantino Ferreira was particularly rewarding. Alongside
director Marina Spada, he had the pleasure of working with the artist
of world renown Arnaldo Pomodoro, and with the great Italian
photographer Gabriele Basilico. In 1996, Luca founded the company "Diva
Film Editors", which was active in Milan for a decade. Between 2003 and
2005, he was also Tutor of Film Editing at "Civic School of Cinema,
Television and New Media of Milan". In 2009, Luca has been nominated
for Best Editing at "Cinema Brazil Grand Prize", for the movie
"Estomago: A Gastronomic Story", directed by Marcos Jorge. In the same
year, he emerged winner of Best Editing Prize at at the fifth "Ibero
Brazil Cine Festival", for the movie "The Art of Stealing", directed by
Leonel Vieira. At the beginning of 2013, Luca obtained a Master's
degree in Cinema and Television at Faculty of Social and Human Sciences
of the New University of Lisbon - Portugal. Since September 2013, he's
Visiting Research Professor in Cinematic Arts at Presbyterian
University Mackenzie of São Paulo - Brazil.