LUCA CASERTA - BIOGRAPHY
Raised in an artistically inspiring environment within a familiy of directors, writers and actors, after the master’s degree in Prehistoric Archaeology Luca Caserta decided to pursue the artistic career, working in theater first, then obtaining the Filmmaking Degree at Movie Academy of Cinecittà (Rome - Italy), majoring in movie direction and screenwriting with Carlo Lizzani, Giacomo Scarpelli, Cristiano Bortone, Franco Brogi Taviani and Mario Brenta. Here he also studied cinematography, shooting and cinema with Giuseppe Pinori, Daniele Nannuzzi and Giuseppe Berardini and attended the workshops held by Pupi Avati, Carlo Verdone and Luis Bacalov.
At Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome he attended the intensive laboratory in direction of photography with Giuseppe Lanci. He besides took part in the workshop "Working with the light" with the director of photography Alessandro Pesci, the Masterclass "Approach to Cinematography" with the director of photography Marco Bassano and attended the Masterclass in Film Production held by Gianluca Arcopinto.
He's author of short films, documentaries, music videos, commercials, promos and art videos. His movies have been presented at many Festivals (Cannes Film Festival, David di Donatello Awards - Rome, European Short Film Festival - Berlin, Roma Cinema DOC, Miami Independent Film Festival, Los Angeles CineFest, Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival, Hollywood Screenings Film Festival, Canada's World International Film Festival where he won the Honorable Mention for The Other Side of the Moon and Top Indie Film Awards, where he gained the Best Editing Award for Tell Me Who I Am and Europe Asia Festival of Cinema as Best European Short Film for Dimmi chi sono...). His short film Out of the Depths, reviewed also on the italian movie magazine CIAK, is distributed on demand in the U.S. and worldwide by IndiePix Films. Along with Inside the Mirror and The Other Side of the Moon, the movie is part of the "trilogy on the double", focused on the investigation of what is hidden in the deepest part of the human soul. The editing supervision of Inside the Mirror is by Ugo De Rossi, editor, among others, of Fellini, Pasolini, Bertolucci, Petri and Rosi. Tell Me Who I Am includes the song "Piccola stella senza cielo" by Luciano Ligabue, courtesy of the artist, of Warner Music Italia and of Warner Chappell Music Italiana.
He has gained professional experiences both in Film Industry and Theatre, where he was engaged since he was a child, taking part to several plays (among which Thomas Moore by W. Shakespeare, starring Raf Vallone). Since 2004 he wrote and directed his own plays, achieving important recognitions, including the “Premio Calcante” by SIAD - Società Italiana Autori Drammatici, Biblioteca del Burcardo, Rome - Italy. Some plays have been published on specialized magazines and were discussed in a thesis.
His works are characterized by touching different genres, styles and themes, from comedy to social and civil commitment, to the investigation of the most obscure aspects of the human psyche, highlighting a certain artistic versatility.
He is one of the jurors of the Sunset Film Festival (Los Angeles - U.S.A.) and he was one of the selectors of the Corti a Palazzo Film Festival (Italy) and curator of the Short Film Section of Schermi d’Amore Film Festival (Italy). He is currently working on his first feature film. He talks about his work in an interview also on CIAK. He's now working on his first feature film.
