TOMMYGUN

Nicola Rondolino

(Turin, 1968-2013) after high school and university, where he graduated in Film History with a thesis on the relationship between cinema, literature and life in François Truffaut’s cinema, he began working as an assistant to production and direction. He worked with Mimmo Calopreste (La seconda volta, 1995), Gianluca Tavarelli (Un amore, 1999, Qui non è il paradiso, 2000), Guido Chiesa (Il partigiano Johnny, 2000), Carlo Mazzacurati (L’estate di Davide, 1998), Sergio Castellitto (Libero Burro, 1999), Lina Wertmüller (Ferdinando e Carolina, 1999), Francesco Calogero (Cinque giorni di tempesta, 1997, Metronotte, 2000). From 1998 to 2006 he worked as a programmer at theTorino Film Festival. In 1996 he signed his first directing with the short film Chiuso per lutto. In 1999 he won the prize for best director at the Saint Vincent Live Film Festival with the collective short Tommygun, while in 2001 he made his feature film debut with Tre punto sei. Since 2003 he has been shooting some videos and documentaries with Davide Tosco, including Due, Camminando and Sei di Falchera. In 2009 he collaborated in the writing and shooting of Laura Halivovic’s documentary Io, la mia famiglia Rom e Woody Allen, winner of numerous awards in festivals in Italy and abroad. Since 2006 he has been working as director of the second unit for La terza madre di Dario Argento, Il giuramento di Ippocrate di Lucio Pellegrini (2010) and in some television dramas such as Ris Roma by Fabio Tagliavia (2010), Le cose che restano by Gianluca Tavarelli (2010) and Pier Belloni's Shadow of Destiny (2011).

FILMOGRAFIA

Alce Mon Amour (1992), Chiuso per lutto (1996), Poca roba (1997), Tommygun (1999), Le vacanze desolate di Monsieur Désolé (2000), Tre punto sei (2003).