People

Massimiliano Navarra

Italy

Biography

He graduates in Philosophy in Rome and then moves to New York where he attends the New York Film Academy. In 2004 founds Oyibo Productions, an ensemble of young independent film-makers and freelance journalists committed to international subjects, realizing documentaries and reportages gathering information and images from the farthest corners of the earth, with a focus on war context and humanitarian crisis. In 2006 with Oybo Production he won Ilaria Alp Award as Best Independent Production. In 2010 he's awarded as Best Producer at the Moscow Film Festival. From 2010 he works as a free lance producer for independent production companies. In 2020 he produced with Ring Film, Re Granchio, selected at Quinzaine des Réalizateurs of Festival di Cannes.

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