Giulio Cavallini, is an Italian filmmaker, photographer and actor born in Turin in 1993.
He is the author, director and producer of several short films including "The Dreamer" (2011), with which he won the Jury Prize at the Sottodiciotto Film Festival and "Consequences" (2017), awarded Best Thriller at the Los Angeles Film Awards. In 2020, he is director of photography and editor of the film "Blackbird".
In 2021 he writes, directs, and stars in the short film "Ratavoloira," screened out of competition at the 39th Torino Film Festival, winner of Best Fantasy Short of the Year at the Indie Short Fest in Los Angeles (the only Italian film in the finals, awarded following a screening at the Regal Cinema Stadium in Los Angeles in January 2023), as well as the Award of Excellence, the Outstanding Achievement Award in Producing, and 5 other awards; semifinalist at Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival, Best Action Film at the New York International Film Awards and the Los Angeles Film Awards.
The same year he directed the short film “By Nightfall" with which he won Best Director awards at the Rome International Film Awards and the Paradise Film Festival in Budapest.
In 2023 he directed the short film “Still Yesterday". He is currently working on the development of the short film "Fantastic Variations on Facts that Really Happened in Turin in 1911" a project that won with maximum score in the call reserved for young authors Under 35 "SIAE - For Those Who Create”. The film will be presented to the public in the fall of 2024.
Since he was a boy, he has collaborated in making documentaries on artistic and historical subjects for various commissions by making video footage and editing. In 2018, he made three short documentaries, the first two for the Venaria Reale "Genius and Mastery" and "Ancient Instruments, Illustrious Characters"; the third "The Legacy of the Royal Madames" for Musei Reali Torino.
In 2020 he co-founded the Fotogramma Zero collective with which he directed commercials, music videos, short films and other numerous video productions such as "Winterreise, op. 89 D. 911" by F. Schubert for the Unione Musicale of Turin.
The following year he co-founded the film production collective Freudstein Film with which he produced the award-winning short film “Ratavoloira”.
He produces corporate videos and the continuous collaborations with theaters also lead him to specialize in video projections for theatrical shows: "Causa di Beatificazione" directed by M. Di Mauro, "La Storia," directed by F. Cabra, "Favola," directed by G. Cerruti, "Non è più il tempo di uccidere," directed by G. Graglia, "Psychodrama" directed by V. Mieli.
Always passionate about science, tech and innovation since 2023 he has been collaborating with the Academy of Sciences of Turin for which he made a series of documentaries on historical-scientific topics including "The Great Journey - Egypt, Turin, the Academy of Sciences" and "Lagrange and Space Parking," "Babbage and the Quantum Computer".