Giulia Mancassola was born in Soave, a small town in the province of Verona, in April 1998. After graduating from the Artistic High School, with a specialization in Scenography, she spends a year studying Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Florence. However, she decided to move to Milan, where she begins her studies in Directing in the Media Design and Multimedia Arts program at NABA, the New Academy of Fine Arts, while simultaneously working as a Director
and Art Director.
Her struggle with accepting her Albanian roots led her over the years to deep reflections on her identity, which inspired the creation of her first film and also her thesis project, Petrolia, based on the negative memories of her childhood summers spent in Kuçovë, a small town in the Albanian countryside and her mother’s birthplace.
Her career has been marked by her constant interest in the poetics of the Grotesque, which has shaped a style she strongly identifies with.