Niccolò Bruna

Niccolò Bruna, born in Turin, Italy, in 1974 is an independent filmmaker and producer. Niccolò has been experimenting the expressive tools of documentary filmmaking since he attended in the EICTV school in Cuba in 1999. Since then he has striven to carry out quality film productions with human interest while offering a fresh glance on powerful social issues. He won several international awards with Dust, the great asbestos trial, co-directed with Andrea Prandstraller, among it the best film in Baghdad, Rio de Janeiro and a nomination for main Italian award the David of Donatello. He won the Ivens Prize at Cinema du Réel, Paris, with Andrea Deaglio's City Veins, the future flows through here which he produced. His film Magicarena (2014) has been theatrical released in Taiwan and China. In 2015 he completed A Closed Mouth Catches no Flies (Le ragazze di Wuchale), about woman conditions in Ethiopia and the feature Pequeñas mentiras piadosas (The travel agent) on the human consequences of US-Cuba relations. In 2017 he completed the Italian-Chinese co-production Hui He, un soprano dalla via della seta (Hui He, the soprano from the silk road) a docu-drama on music as a bridge across far cultures.