Giulio Donato
Giulio Donato was born in Rome in 1993 and started working in 2013 as an assistant director and then as first assistant director, casting and producer on more than 60 film sets (features, documentaries, commercials, video clips and fashion) in Italy, Norway, Brazil, Germany and Mexico, with directors such as Abel Ferrara, Asia Argento, Giada Colagrande, Mimmo Calopresti, Gennaro Nunziante, Roberta Torre, Gianni Zanasi and Claudio Caligari. He wrote and directed four short fiction films that were selected in various Italian and international film festivals.
In 2022, he started working on his debut feature entitled ‘LABIRINTI’, produced by Life Cinema and winner of the last session of the Mic (Italian Ministery of Culture) Selective Grants, Young Authors section.
The film was presented in 2024 at the 81st Venice Film Festival as a special Venice Days screening in the Confrontations section.
Crew
Il vegetale
Second Assistant Director, Casting Assistant
Where Am I Going?
Second Assistant Director
Romanzo radicale
First Assistant Director
Tiramisu
Second Assistant Director
Zeros and Ones
Casting, Assistant Director
Pasolini
Assistant Director
The Anniversary
Casting, First Assistant Director
It's Just in My Head
First Assistant Director, Casting, Editor
Padre Pio
Casting, First Assistant Director
Misunderstood
Assistant Director
Labirinti
Screenplay, Director, Executive Producer
Tommaso
Casting, First Assistant Director
Siberia
Casting, Second Assistant Director
Sportin' Life
Assistant Director
Don't Be Bad
Production Assistant
The Complexity of Happiness
Production Assistant
All Roads Lead to Rome
Second Assistant Director
L'universale
Additional Production Assistant
Father
Second Assistant Director
How to Grow Up Despite Your Parents
Second Assistant Director
Bloody Richard
Second Assistant Director
Senza fine
First Assistant Director
Natural Lefty
First Assistant Director
The Italian Recipe
Second Assistant Director
The Nightingales
Executive Producer
Corpo unico
First Assistant Director
Gianni Versace – Emperor of Dreams
First Assistant Director
Turn in the Wound
Associate Producer