Flaminio completed his studies in contemporary history at University of Rome. After a short career as a journalist, in 2001 he moved to Hamburg, where he started to work with the director Fatih Akin. In 2004, back in Rome, together with Alberto Fanni and Paolo Colombo he founded Dorje Film. Besides Akin (THE EDGE OF HEAVEN, SOUL KITCHEN, THE CUT), Flaminio extended his collaboration to a wide number of filmmakers such as Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Zhangke Jia and Jafar Panahi.