Person

Giulio Donato

Directing

Giulio Donato was born in Rome in 1993 and started working in 2013 as an assistant director and then as first assistant director, casting and producer on more than 60 film sets (features, documentaries, commercials, video clips and fashion) in Italy, Norway, Brazil, Germany and Mexico, with directors such as Abel Ferrara, Asia Argento, Giada Colagrande, Mimmo Calopresti, Gennaro Nunziante, Roberta Torre, Gianni Zanasi and Claudio Caligari. He wrote and directed four short fiction films that were selected in various Italian and international film festivals. In 2022, he started working on his debut feature entitled ‘LABIRINTI’, produced by Life Cinema and winner of the last session of the Mic (Italian Ministery of Culture) Selective Grants, Young Authors section. The film was presented in 2024 at the 81st Venice Film Festival as a special Venice Days screening in the Confrontations section.

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  All Roads Lead to Rome

  Second Assistant Director

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  Siberia

  Casting

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  Don't Be Bad

  Production Assistant

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  It's Just in My Head

  First Assistant Director

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  Misunderstood

  Assistant Director

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  Pasolini

  Assistant Director

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  Zeros and Ones

  Casting

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  Gianni Versace – Emperor of Dreams

  First Assistant Director

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  Bloody Richard

  Second Assistant Director

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  Where Am I Going?

  Second Assistant Director

• 2025ErionExecutive Producer
• 2024LabirintiScreenplay
• 2024Turn in the WoundAssociate Producer
• 2023Gianni Versace – Emperor of DreamsFirst Assistant Director
• 2023Corpo unicoFirst Assistant Director
• 2023Padre PioCasting
• 2022The AnniversaryCasting
• 2022Romanzo radicaleFirst Assistant Director
• 2022The NightingalesExecutive Producer
• 2022The Italian RecipeSecond Assistant Director
• 2022Natural LeftyFirst Assistant Director
• 2022Senza fineFirst Assistant Director
• 2021Zeros and OnesCasting
• 2020It's Just in My HeadFirst Assistant Director
• 2020Sportin' LifeAssistant Director
• 2020SiberiaCasting
• 2020TommasoCasting
• 2018Il vegetaleSecond Assistant Director
• 2017Bloody RichardSecond Assistant Director
• 2016How to Grow Up Despite Your ParentsSecond Assistant Director
• 2016FatherSecond Assistant Director
• 2016L'universaleAdditional Production Assistant
• 2016TiramisuSecond Assistant Director
• 2016All Roads Lead to RomeSecond Assistant Director
• 2016Where Am I Going?Second Assistant Director
• 2015The Complexity of HappinessProduction Assistant
• 2015Don't Be BadProduction Assistant
• 2014PasoliniAssistant Director
• 2014MisunderstoodAssistant Director