Maria Giménez Cavallo
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Maria Giménez Cavallo was born in New York in 1992 to an Italian-American mother and Spanish father. She got her B.A. from Columbia University in Film Studies, Italian Cultural Studies, and French Cultural Studies with a thesis on Michelangelo Frammartino’s Le quattro volte.
After graduation, she moved to Paris to accompany Abdellatif Kechiche for four years as artistic collaborator, casting director, assistant director, and editor for the Mektoub, My Love trilogy (Venice Competition 2017, Cannes Competition 2019).
She then moved to Rome to collaborate with Pietro Marcello, Alice Rohrwacher, and Francesco Munzi on set and in the editing room, for a documentary shot on 16mm throughout Italy: Futura (Cannes Quinzaine des réalisateurs 2021), later followed Pietro back to Paris where she was artistic director on his French film L’Envol (Cannes Quinzaine des réalisateurs 2022), and most recently accompanied him on Duse (in post-production).
She also co-edited Hafsia Herzi’s film feature film Tu mérites un amour, was an assistant director on Sara Fgaier’s Sulla Terra Leggeri (Locarno Competition 2024) and recently Ben Rivers’ Anarchy (in post-production).
She has participated in various workshops, including Locarno Spring Academy with Michelangelo Frammartino, Armani Laboratorio with Walter Fasano and Luca Guadagnino, Itineranze Doc with Luciano Barisone and Alberto Diana, and Milano Film Network In Progress with Carlo Hintermann and Giulio Sangiorgio.
In 2020, Maria opened anima films with Jo Ann Cavallo in order to produce her own work. Since then, she has made various short films with nature as the central theme, including La Visita (Locarno 2022), La Grande Quercia (Bellaria, FIFAM 2022), and Jeanne, petite bergère (Shortlist Quinzaine 2020).
Her debut feature film Anime galleggianti, a reimagining of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, had its premiere at the Alice nella città Festival in Rome in October 2024.
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