Our Story

The crossed fates of the last great Italian ocean liners, the Raffaello and the Michelangelo.
Documentary 52′
Director Giotto Barbieri

Doc series I and III episode 52′ each
Two episodes to tell the story of living with little-known and extremely disabling diseases.

Documentary 52′
Boston, 1927. Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed by electric chair, the only crime they were found guilty was to be anarchists. Fifty years later, Giuliano Montaldo made a film about their incredible story. The title is Sacco e Vanzetti and immediately became a worldwide emblem against injustice.

CCornigliano, Genoa, Italy. Today.
Salvatore and Christian Costarelli, marble-cutters. After eight hours of work, they go to the gym to
train very hard for boxing. Why do they do it? What do they dream of?
Documentary 52′

At 3:32 a.m. on April 6, 2009, a terrible earthquake hits L’Aquila and the Abruzzo region. This documentary series is a look at the new normality after the tragedy. How do you restart your life from zero after losing everything?

Documentary Series
A Thriller Documentary Series in 6 episodes –
The most incredible European art robberies told by their protagonists.
Documentary 52′ and 90′

Episode 6 The Budapest Heist:
Director Giotto Barbieri
1983, in the midst of the Cold War, seven masterpieces by Italian Renaissance masters, including the famous Madonna of Esterhazy, disappear from the Budapest Museum. When, almost a year later, the paintings reappear inside a Greek monastery, Italian and Hungarian police investigate by following a trail that leads them to Reggio Emilia, where criminals Giordano Incerti, Ivano Scianti and their gang had planned the theft.Trailer

Electroshock is still used today and is one of the most controversial therapeutic techniques in existence. For some, it’s a practice that should be banned; for others, it’s the last resort for severe pathologies. But what do we really know about electroshock?
Documentary 52′

Two years after the earthquake, L’Aquila is a ghost town, and the promised fast reconstruction is still a mirage. What happened to the people we met in the Fromzero series? These are their stories.

Produced by Luminous Range Films
Directed by Giotto Barbieri