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GIFFONI FILM FESTIVAL 2018 - 20.28 july

LUIGI CATANI

JULY 24

Biography

Born in 2000, he starts his career in the film industry in 2011, when he has the opportunity to work with director Ivan Cotroneo on the film "La Kryptonite nella borsa", where he plays the role of Peppino. The film, distributed by Lucky Red, hits the Italian theatres in 2011. Before this experience, Luigi had been part of the choir of the Teatro San Carlo in Naples for many years, but his breakthrough role was the one in Cotroneo's film. Playing the role of Peppino was extremely difficult, especially with how the director had imagined the character. Ivan Cotroneo, auditioning various children, couldn't take that Luigi out of his mind, the one with that special way of being, who, as he recounted, would put himself in a corner of the room and be ever so serious.

After the experience with Cotroneo, Luigi was chosen by director Elisa Fuksas for her film, "Nina". He played the role of Ettore, the young boy that follows the protagonist in her pilgrimage through the streets of the neighbourhood. This too was a very formative experience for Luigi: even though it was Buksas' first directorial experience, she earned a special mention from the jury of BIFF-Bari International Film Festival. For his lastest film, "Dei", directed by Cosimo Terlizzi, he plays the lead role, Martino, a 17 years old boy from the suburbs fascinated by the lifestyle of the youth from the city, torn between the desire to study art and the necessities of his family and their precarious financial situation.

  • Filmography:

    • ACTOR
    cinema
    La kryptonite nella borsa (2011)
    Nina (2012)
    Dei (2018)