Massimo Amici

I was born in Rome and grew up in Toronto. I spent my early years in advertising as an art director, at Y&R, Saatchi & Saatchi, McCann, and an agency of my own, before moving into film for good.

My first short, Acaluma, won a jury award in Rome, and the ones that followed picked up prizes elsewhere, including Best Short Film at the Queens International Film Festival in New York. The work has taken me to the US, Italy, Colombia, Argentina, New Zealand and across Europe. I also shot, graded and edited Jack Davies’s feature Interview with an Android, which won at festivals in the UK, Europe and North America and is licensed to Amazon Prime Video.

The rest of the time I shoot and edit for brands, among them Google, Barclays and IKEA, and I run a studio, acalumaFILMS, making films for businesses. I’m based in London, and usually in the middle of something.