Renzo
Martinelli

He graduated in Foreign Languages and Literature and specialized in cinematography at the Università Cattolica Social Communication High School. In the 70s he founded a production company and started to work as a director in RAI, making several reports on different actuality subjects. In those same years he directed several videoclips for famous singers like: Alice, Battiato, Van Halen, Dalla, Tozzi, Pino Daniele, Alan Parson and Rockets. At the end of the 80s he produced various ads and became one of the most well-established directors in Italy creating spots like Carrera Jeans, Ballantyne's, Sony, Opel Vectra, Dreher Beer, Montenegro, Aspirin and ENI besides several Advert & Progress spots. As director and producer of documentaries he has created more than one hundred works, many of which of an artistic character, such as Giulio Romano (about the building of the Tè Palace in Mantua), The Palace of the Gonzaga, The Marbles of Milan Cathedral. His debut in the cinema was in 1993 with Sarah sarà, a real story, which took place in the 60s, of a little black disabled girl showing exceptional talent in swimming whose dream is to take part in the Capri-Naples, the most enduring long distance swimming race in the world. 1997 brings Porzus, shown at the Venice Festival, a cinematographic transposition of the civil slaughter among partisans in February 1945.