Biography

His latest film "Lucania, Land Blood and Magic" produced in collaboration with Rai Cinema and the Italian Ministry of Culture won numerous awards since its premiere in Los Angeles, including three Gran Jury Remi Awards as Best Foreign Film, Best Actress, Best Editing at 52° Houston International Film Festival and Best Actor, Best Editing and Best Film at Social World Film Festival, also the Hero and Time Award in Russia. Nominated among the 10 Best Italian Films of 2019 by Coming Soon Television "absolutely recommended" by My Movies & Ciak Magazine with extraordinary press and critics, released in theaters, home video, and by Sky, RAI, Amazon Prime.

His feature debut "Babylon Sisters" a co-production between Italy and Croatia supported by both Ministries of Culture, screened in over thirty International Festivals including Rome, Paris Mumbai, Pune, Pula, Milan, Cine Sans Frontiers and Cairo, becoming the image poster of the BFI London Film Festival, at the British Film Institute, distributed in the UK by Picture House. Winning two Audience Awards and twice Best First Film.

A graduate of the London Film School with a Masters Degree from London Metropolitan University he studied with Mike Leigh and Micheal Mann. With his super-16mm graduation short film "Chloe Travels Time" Roccati won the "Universal Studios Master Award": internship at Universal Studios and Focus Feature L.A. Selected by the American Cinematheque and Cinecittà Holding. For Universal directed four "Pluriel Shorts" produced by Citroen & Filmmaster presented at Venice Film Festival. A Berlinale Talents Campus Alumni, working with Vivo Film his screenplay "Beirut, I Love You", adaptation of Zena El Khalil's memoir, won both Torino Film Lab Jury & Audience Awards.

Director of documentaries in China, Mongolia, Russia, Afghanistan, United States, South America, Nigeria and Lebanon, including "Three Masters of Photography", "Living Utopia" with Judith Malina and The Living Theatre, "The Working Class Goes to Hell" produced by Greed and RAI television. His feature doc "The Road to Kabul" was awarded by RAI TV and the Italian Ministry of Defence as Best War Doc of Italian Television 2013, which led him to have his first photography book published by Magnum Contrasto Ed.

A firm believer that collective history is a lens to navigate the future and that resilient beauty can be found in war-torn countries his docs, films, music videos, produced around the world tackle social, political, gender issues through pop culture. To support new developments and innovative productions in 2018 he created Ardita Film. His films are on Sky, Rai, Amazon Prime.
- IMDb mini biography by: gigi roccati

Directed and produced (provided service) industrial, corporate and journalistic documentaries in five continents for Eni, Snam, Lavazza, La Repubblica, La Stampa, Studio Universal and many more, in countries including Nigeria, Mongolia, Russia, Syria and Lebanon, United States of America, Turkey and Kurdistan.

Nominated among the 10 Best Italian Films of 2019 by Coming Soon "An extreme care of direction, a visceral need for authenticity, a great honesty of storytelling and a good dose of courage" Lucania is "absolutely recommended" with four stars by My Movies and Ciak Magazine defined by the press "a powerful drama suspended between mythology, magical realism and Mediterranean western" also "a contemporary Western that hits straight to the heart, like a shotgun!".

Having lived four years in Beirut, Directed and produced music videos for the underground music scene in the Middle East tackling social, political and gender issues through pop culture.