About
The Piranesi Experience™ is an independent Italian production company founded in 2014 by former students of Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. The headquarters is located in Bari with offices in Rome. The name of the production company is a tribute to Giovanni Battista Piranesi, architect and engraver, author of an original representation of the city of Rome in which fiction and truth come together to create a unique vision.
The company develops and produces original content with an editorial line specifically centered around social issues, sustainable development, contemporary cities, art and architecture.
Our productions have been premiered and awarded in major film festivals, such as Tribeca, Sarajevo, Torino, Tallin, Thessaloniki, Giffoni. We have been working with key players in film industry market (Rai, Netflix, Amazon) receiving support of international institutions (MEDIA, MIC, Apulia Film Commission, IDM Südtirol, Piemonte FCTP among others). In 2023 The Piranesi Experience was the very first company in Southern Italy to obtain support for Slate Development by MEDIA Creative Europe.
Awards & Selections
16° Bari BIF&ST + 39° Fribourg FIFF + 26° Buenos Aires BAFICI / Lo Deseado
30° Visioni Italiane / Fallen Houses
24° Alice Nella Città (Roma Film Fest) + 20° Cortinametraggio / Pinocchio Reborn
24° Tribeca Film Festival - Special Mention Best International Film / Samia. Non Dirmi Che Hai Paura
42° Torino Film Festival / Terra Nova. The Land of Long Shadows
Team
The Piranesi Experience has been founded by Claudio Esposito (Bari, 1987) after his studies at Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. In 2022 Claudio Esposito has been selected for ACE Mentoring Programme EU among young emerging European producers and in 2023 for EAVE Puentes. Claudio is professor at Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome and was awarded with 'La Chioma di Berenice' Prize as best emerging producer during 18th Rome Film Fest in 2023.
Alongside Claudio, our team includes creative producers Daniela De Francesco and Stefano Chiavarini, junior producers Maria Comasia Caliandro and Cinzia Giordano, administration manager Federico Santo Coletta, digital specialist Cristian Caci and office manager Sara Latorre.
Among our main productions: the feature documentary Baikonur. Earth (dir. Andrea Sorini, 2020) produced with Lumen Films, Rai Cinema and the support of Italian Ministry of Culture, SIAE Per Chi Crea. The film was premiered at Vancouver VIFF, Festival do Rio and Krakow FF and released on Netflix in 2021 in parallel with the release of a book edited by the Italian publisher Il Saggiatore. In 2022 Paula, directed by Florencia Wehbe and co-produced with Bombilla Cine (AR). Paula won as best WIP at Industry@Baltic Event 2021 in the Just Film category, after that it has been officially selected at BAFICI, Giffoni, Sarajevo, Thessaloniki, Melbourne, Sofia, Moscow, La Huelva, Chicago and Tallinn Black Nights. Paula won the best U35 director FEISAL prize, nomination for best editing at BAFICI 2022 and the Colon de Plata at Huelva 2022. Last doc, Terra Nova, directed by Lorenzo Pallotta was premiered at Torino Film Festival 2023. In 2024 we premiered in Tribeca Samia: Little Dreamer, directed by dir. Yasemin Samdereli a production by Indyca, BIM Produzione, Neue Bioskop, Tarantula, Rai Cinema in collaboration with The Piranesi Experience with the support of Creative Europe, Eurimages, FFA, FFF, FFA, MDM, LFA, DFFF, Wallimages, Taxshelter.be, Apulia Film Commission.
In 2024 The Piranesi Experience has launched a department for theatrical distribution with the feature doc Mighty Afrin in the time of flood directed by Angelos Rallis and produced by AR Productions in coproduction with ARTE, ZDF and the support of Creative Europe, CNC, Greek Film Center, Eurimages. The film has obtained numerous awards (Testimony Award at 27° Jihlava IFF, WWF Award 25° Thessaloniki Doc Film Festival, ACEA Giffoni Prize) being selected in Helsinki, Tallinn, Vancouver, Festival dei Popoli and 40 more international film festival. The doc has been released in April 2024 in partnership with Amnesty International, WWF and Save The Children, reaching more than 50 theatres all around the country.
Coming out in 2025 is Lo Deseado, the third feature film by Dario Mascambroni (already selected at the Berlinale with his previous 2 films) that will have its Italian premiere at Bari Bif&st 2025, then Freiburg and Buenos Aires BAFICI.