AMSTERDAM

Marco Ponti

(Italian director, screenwriter and writer, he made his feature film debut in 2001 with Santa Maradona, one of the year's major Italian box-office successes, which won two David di Donatello Awards and a Ciak d’Oro. In 2004 he directed A/R Andata + Ritorno, followed in 2013 by Passione sinistra, which he co-wrote and directed. In 2015 he achieved further box-office success with Io che amo solo te, based on Luca Bianchini’s novel, followed the following year by La cena di Natale and, in 2018, Una vita spericolata. Alongside his film work, he has worked in theatre and television, also contributing to the writing and adaptation of stage plays. In 2022 he directed La bella stagione, a documentary produced by Groenlandia and Rai Cinema about the friendship between Gianluca Vialli and Roberto Mancini, which won a Nastro d’Argento Award. He also worked as artistic producer on the docuseries Il Principe - The King Who Never Was (2023), directed by Beatrice Borromeo Casiraghi. He is the author of several novels and books for young readers, including Ombre che camminano, La città delle streghe, Alice resta a casa and R - Ribelli, resistenza e rock’n’roll. In 2024, together with Pierdomenico Baccalario, he published Le cose importanti, a collection of stories by Gianluca Vialli.)

FILMOGRAFIA

Amsterdam (cm, 1999). Santa Maradona (2001), A/R Andata + Ritorno (2004), Ti amo troppo per dirtelo (tv, 2010), Passione sinistra (2012), Io che amo solo te (2015), La cena di Natale (2016), Una vita spericolata (2018), Eravamo schiavi (doc, 2019), Il mio anno stranissimo (cm, 2021), La bella stagione (doc, 2022), Sguardi (doc. 2026).