Musical Globe

Giulia Giapponesi is a screenwriter, director and editor. After graduating with a degree in Communication Studies, she worked for over ten years as a video editor on television projects, commercials and video clips. In those years she began her training as a director, which was refined in the making of more than 50 corporate films for companies in Emilia-Romagna. She approaches the world of cinema in the role of cultural activist and in 2012 she founded and chaired for over four years the association Kinodromo that promotes Italian independent productions and manages the programming of a small arthouse cinema in Bologna.
In 2019 she wrote and directed the short film The Load (Il Fagotto) which was selected in more than 50 international festivals and was chosen by Farnesina as one of the 10 Italian short films to be promoted in the world in 2020. In 2018, she wrote and directed the documentary Carracci - The Silent Revolution (Carracci - La Rivoluzione Silenziosa). Presented at Sotto le stelle del cinema in front of more than 4,000 people, it was selected by numerous festivals (including the US FAFF 2020) and won Best Director and Best Soundtrack at FilmArte Berlin, Best Fine Arts Film at Master of Art Sofia 2021, and a special mention from the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage at Mente Locale 2019. Acquired by SkyArte, it was chosen by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation to be included in "Promozione Paese Italia" a program of documentaries chosen to promote Italian artistic heritage around the world in 2021. Bella Ciao (2022) is her first feature film.