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Giulio Cavallini is an Italian director, photographer, and actor.

Born in Turin in 1993, he began acting at age 15 at the Sergio Tofano Theatre School. These were years of deep exploration and passion for drawing, painting, photography, cinema, and theater. After graduating from the Massimo D’Azeglio Classical High School, he became a student at the advanced professional acting school of the Teatro Stabile di Torino, where he graduated in 2015. The program allowed him to encounter various theatrical aesthetics and offered the opportunity to train within one of the most prestigious National Theaters.
He is the author, director, and producer of various short films including Il sognatore (2011), which won the Jury Prize at the Sottodiciotto Film Festival, and Conseguenze (2017). In 2020, he was director of photography and editor for Blackbird by Michele Di Mauro, based on David Harrower’s play and produced by the Teatro Stabile di Torino.

In 2021, he wrote, directed, and acted in the short Ratavoloira, screened out of competition at the 39th Torino Film Festival and winner of 11 international awards, including Best Fantasy Short of the Year at the Indie Short Fest in Los Angeles. It was the only Italian film to reach the finals, awarded at the Regal Cinema Stadium in Los Angeles in January 2023. That same year, he directed the shorts All’imbrunire and Ancora Ieri.

In 2024, he wrote and directed Fantastic Variations on Events That Really Happened in Turin in 1911, a short about the last hours of Emilio Salgari starring Valerio Binasco and supported by SIAE Per Chi Crea. He is currently developing The Theatre of the Living Dead, a horror-comedy short co-directed with Riccardo Livermore, featuring original music by maestro Fabio Frizzi and supported by the Italian Ministry of Culture.

In theater, he wrote and directed #max², which premiered in 2016 at Cavallerizza Reale in Turin. In 2020, he was a finalist in the Venice Biennale’s Under 30 Directors call with a project based on Roberto Zucco by Bernard-Marie Koltès. In 2021, he returned to directing with A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, produced by Cineteatro Baretti, for which he also created a video version. He also worked as assistant director to Davide Livermore at the Greek Theater of Syracuse for The Libation Bearers and The Eumenides by Aeschylus.

Since youth, he has collaborated on art and history documentaries, handling video shooting and editing. In 2018, he created three short documentaries: Genio e Maestria and Ancient Instruments, Illustrious Figures for the Venaria Reale, and The Legacy of the Royal Madames for Palazzo Madama in Turin.

Passionate about science, technology, and innovation, since 2023 he has collaborated with the Accademia delle Scienze di Torino, producing historical-scientific documentaries with science journalist Silvia Rosa-Brusin. Titles include: The Great Journey, Lagrange and the Three-Body Problem, Babbage and the Quantum Computer, Schiaparelli – The Egyptologist Photographer, and The Planet Hunter – Interview with Nobel Laureate Michel Mayor.

In 2020, he co-founded the collective Fotogramma Zero, directing short films, music videos, and various other productions. The following year, he co-founded Freudstein Film, with which he produced the multi-award-winning short Ratavoloira.

He independently produces videos for Fondazione Sella, Confindustria Piemonte, Unioncamere, Scuola Camerana, and promotional materials for Teatro Stabile di Torino, Centro Teatrale Bresciano, Cineteatro Baretti, A.M.R. Company, and the companies ContrasTo, Asterlizze, Nina’s, Curtain Ensemble, and AMA Factory.

His ongoing collaborations with theaters have also led him to specialize in video projections for theatrical performances: Causa di Beatificazione (dir. Michele Di Mauro), La Storia (dir. Fausto Cabra), Favola (dir. Giorgia Cerruti), Non è più il tempo di uccidere (dir. Giulio Graglia), and Psychodrama (dir. Valerio Mieli).