Biography

Andrea Iervolino is an award-winning movie producer, producer of: an Academy nominated movie "Tell it Like a Woman", a Golden Bear nominated documentary "The Walls of Bergamo", Golden Lion nominated movies "The Humbling", "Waiting for the Barbarians" and "Ferrari". Andrea Iervolino is also a businessman whose passion for cinema led him to producing films starting at the age of 15! Since then, the now 34 years old Iervolino, has produced and distributed over 75 films, making him one of the most active and accomplished film executives in the world. Alongside Monika Bacardi, Iervolino has co-founded several entertainment ventures, including the highly successful AMBI Media Group. Through AMBI, Andrea has emerged as an industry leader and is dedicated to making and delivering high-end, commercial movies for global audiences. In 2015 and 2020, he was named one of Variety's deal-makers to watch. In 2018, Iervolino launched TaTaTu - a block-chain based social entertainment platform that combines the best features from the major platforms and social networks with an innovative incentives system. Digital points (TTU Coin) are given out to creators and consumers of content, including those from their referred friends, as they participate in the social network. Meanwhile, Iervolino's Italian production company, Iervolino & Lady Bacardi Entertainment S.p.A. (ILBE S.p.A.), founded in 2011, went public in August 2019 and now operates as a public entertainment entity. Iervolino is currently one of the youngest and most highly regarded Italian entrepreneurs in the world of filmmaking. At the 71st Venice Film Festival, alongside Al Pacino and Barry Levinson, Iervolino garnered the Best Producer Award. In 2016, at the Capri Hollywood Film Festival, he was named Filmmaker of the Year for his work on James Franco's 'In Dubious Battle'. Later in 2016, and again in 2018, he was awarded Best Producer and Businessman at the Italian Contemporary Film Festival (ICFF). On June 18th, 2018, Iervolino was awarded Knighthood of the Italian Republic (Cavaliere della Repubblica Italiana) by the President of the Italian Republic, Sergio Mattarella, and the Italian Consulate of Canada for his outstanding achievement in the fields of business and media culture. Through ILBE he produced the feature adaptation of J.M. Coetzee's prize-winning novel "Waiting for the Barbarians," directed by Ciro Guerra, and starring Academy Award® winner Mark Rylance, multiple Academy Award® nominee Johnny Depp and Robert Pattinson; Marcus Stokes' State of Consciousness, starring Emile Hirsch: Eddie & Sunny with Gabriel Luna; The Poison Rose starring John Travolta and Morgan Freeman; Dakota with Abbie Cornish, Lola Sultan, Patrick Muldoon, Tim Rozon and William Baldwin; Muti with Morgan Freeman, Cole Hauser, Peter Stormare, Vernon Davis and Giuseppe Zeno; Tell it Like a Woman with Jennofer Hudson, Cara Delevingne, Eva Longoria, Margherita Buy, Jacqueline Fernandez and Marcia Gay Harden. In 2023 Andrea Iervolino was honored with the Variety Golden Globes Breakthrough Producers Award for his contributions to Italian cinema at the Variety Golden Globe Awards, an event that is part of the celebration of the 80th Venice International Film Festival. He's executive producer, through ILBE, of 2 movies: "Lamborghini" based on the life of Ferruccio Lamborghini, directed by Bobbie Moresco and with Frank Grillo, Gabriel Byrne and Mira Sorvino. nd "Minamata" by Andrew Levitas, with Johnny Depp. He also produced the comedy "Safe Spaces" starring Justin Long, Fran Drescher and Richard Schiff; and the 3D, CGI animated family film "Arctic Dogs" starring Jeremy Renner, Alec Baldwin, Heidi Klum, John Cleese, James Franco and Anjelica Huston, which will open worldwide in November. Recent films of his include father/son stock car racing film "Trading Paint," starring Two-time Oscar® nominee John Travolta, Shania Twain, Toby Sebastian and Michael Madsen; the romantic drama "Best Day of My Life" starring Sarah Jessica Parker, Renée Zellweger, Common and Simon Baker; the revenge thriller "Bent" from Academy Award® winner Bobby Moresco, starring Karl Urban, Sofia Vergara and Andy Garcia; the heist movie "Finding Steve McQueen," starring Travis Fimmel, Rachael Taylor, William Fichtner and Forest Whitaker, directed by Mark Steven Johnson; the Andrea Bocelli biopic "The Music of Silence", directed by Oscar® nominated Michael Radford and starring Antonio Banderas, Toby Sebastian and Jordi Molla; the psychological thriller "Black Butterfly" starring Antonio Banderas and Jonathan Rhys Meyers; the faith based children's film "Beyond the Sun," featuring His Holiness Pope Francis. Currently, Andrea Iervolino focused his business creating high-quality short animated for streaming platform. He produced two spin off from the movie Arctic Dogs: Arctic Friends and Puffins, with cast voice by Johnny Depp. He launched an animation studios, Iervolino Studios, in Serbia last year.

AWARDS

KNIGHT OF THE ORDER OF MERIT OF THE ITALIAN REPUBLIC From the President of the Italian Republic Sergio Mattarella

2 HONORARY DEGREES Vasili Goldis University Mexico City University

ITALIAN EXCELLENCE AWARD

LOS ANGELES ITALIA FILM FESTIVAL, US 2024 LA, Italia - People Award for the enhancement of African realities by making and directing documentaries: "Discovery Tanzania 3D" and "The Trackers 3D"

CAPRI, HOLLYWOOD 2023 Best Film Production for "Ferrari"

LOS ANGELES ITALIA FILM FESTIVAL, US 2023 Best Film Production for "Tell it Like a Woman"

ICFF AWARDS 2022 Best Production of the Year for "Lamborghini - The Man Behind the Legend"

TAORMINA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2022 Taormina Excellence Award for "Tell it Like a Woman"

LE GIORNATE DEL CINEMA LUCANO 2019 Best Film Producer

MAGNA GRAECIA FILM FESTIVAL 2017 Colonna d'Oro

PRODUCER OF THE YEAR 2017 Andrea Iervolino

LAZIALE DELL'ANNO AWARD - ONTARIO 2017 From the Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau

CAPRI HOLLYWOOD FILM FESTIVAL 2016 Best Filmmaker for "In Dubious Battle"

VENICE FILM FESTIVAL 2016 Mimmo Rotella Award Andrea Iervolino as Best Producer "In Dubious Battle" 73rd Annual Venice Film Festival

IC-SAVING AWARD 2016 Andrea Iervolino as Best Producer and Businessman

ACTION ACADEMY AWARD 2016 Andrea Iervolino as Best Producer and Businessman

VARIETY'S 2015 DEALMAKER Andrea Iervolino being named one of Variety's 2015 Dealmakers

MADE IN ITALY AWARDS 2015 Best Italian businessman

ICFF AWARDS 2015 Andrea Iervolino is the new Ambassadaor of Cinema in the world (a TIFF event)

VENICE FILM FESTIVAL 2014 Mimmo Rotella Award Andrea Iervolino as Best Producer "The Humbling" 71st Annual Venice Film Festival

OTHER AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS

LOS ANGELES ITALIA FILM FESTIVAL 2024 Best International Film of the Year for "Paradox Effect"

SILVER RIBBON 2024 Nominated Best Documentary for "Le Mura di Bergamo (The Walls of Bergamo)"

CINEMA FOR PEACE AWARDS 2024 Nominated Cinema for Peace Award for "Le Mura di Bergamo (The Walls of Bergamo)"

ISCHIA GLOBAL FEST 2023 lschia William Walton Legend Award for "Applouse" in "Tell it Like a Woman". lschia Global Music Award for "Applouse" in "Tell it Like a Woman".

SNCCI, FILM DELLA CRITICA 2023 Best documentary for "Le Mura di Bergamo (The Walls of Bergamo)"

ACADEMY AWARDS 2023 Nominated as Best Original Song for "Applouse" in "Tell it Like a Woman".

SATELLITE AWARDS 2023 Nominated as Best Original Song for "Applouse" in "Tell it Like a Woman".

SOCIETY OF COMPOSERS AND LYRICISTS' AWARDS 2023 SCL Award, Outstanding Original Song for a Dramatic or Documentary Visual Media Production" for Applouse" in "Tell it Like a Woman".

CAPRI, HOLLYWOOD 2023 Best Original Song for "Applouse" in "Tell it Like a Woman".

BERLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2023 Nominated as Berlinale Documentary Award for "Le Mura di Bergamo (The Walls of Bergamo)"

HOLLYWOOD MUSIC IN MEDIA AWARDS (HMMA) 2022 Best Original Song - Independent Film for "Applouse" in "Tell it Like a Woman".

CAPRI, HOLLYWOOD 2022 Capri Italian-American Award for "Lamborghini - The Man Behind the Legend"

TERRA DI SIENA FILM FESTIVAL 2022 Best International Film for "State of Consciousness"

CAPRI, HOLLYWOOD 2020 Best Costume for "Waiting for the Barbarians "

TURKISH FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION (SIYAD) AWARDS 2020 Nominated as SIYAD Award for "Waiting for the Barbarians "

SAN SEBASTIÁN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2019 Nominated as Audience Award for "Waiting for the Barbarians "

VENICE FILM FESTIVAL 2019 Nominated as Best Film for "Waiting for the Barbarians "



OTHERS: ICFF 2014: Award of Excellence to DANNY GLOVER ICFF 2014: Special Award of Honour to STEPHEN BALDWIN Rome Film Festival 2013 PREMIO LARA Valeria Golino: Best Actress for the movie COME IL VENTO Rome Film Festival 2014 PREMIO AKAI Paco Reconti: Best Supporting Actor for the movie TRE TOCCHI (English Title: LIFE IS A STAGE)
- IMDb mini biography by: Edvige De Tommaso