Producer of
THE DAMNED
Paolo Benzi lives and works in Italy. He’s the founder of the Italian independent film company Okta Film and is 2009 Eurodoc graduate. He was a jury member at the Vision du Réel (Switzerland), Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival (Czech Republic) and FIDlab Marseille (France), Locarno Residency (Switzerland), Work-in-progress Mar del Plata (Argentina) as well as a tutor for Rough Cut Lab at Vision du Réel (Switzerland), Itineranze at Sole Luna Doc (Italy), Start Me Up and La Incubadora at ECAM (Spain). Since 2012 he’s a head tutor for Emerging Producers programme at Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival (Czech Republic).
Films (selection): GUERRA (2004), FELTRINELLI (2006), INGEFILM (2010), I AM NOT ME – ROMEO, JULIET AND THE OTHERS (2011), LA SCUOLA D’ESTATE (2014), SEMINA IL VENTO (2020), DREAMING ALCESTIS (2022)