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Marco Iammatteo(born 22 September 1985) is a Canadian born, Montreal-based film director. Iammatteo employs a documentary-style, hand-held, cinema vérité technique, blending naturalistic and photo-realistic aesthetics to all his projects. He is best known as the director of his under budgeted first feature My Name Is Sandy, his only feature film to date.

Early life and career
Iammatteo was born in Montreal, Canada. At 15 he began being drawn to the world of photography after finding his father’s old Minolta 35mm film camera. When Iammatteo was 18, he enrolled in a community college where he pursued his passion for photography. Although tempted and drawn to glamour and fashion photography, Iammatteo chose to follow in the footsteps of his renowned photography teacher Robert Del Tredici as a street photographer.

After attending a colleagues video production class, Iammatteo found his true passion. Iammatteo then found himself producing, writing and directing a series of short videos in and outside of school. At 22 he enrolled at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University where he still is enrolled. With little experience in film, he used photography as a basis for his cinematic approach. Early life and career :

Iammatteo was born in Montreal, Canada. At 15 he began being drawn to the world of photography after finding his father’s old Minolta 35mm film camera. When Iammatteo was 18, he enrolled in a community college where he pursued his passion for photography. Although tempted and drawn to glamour and fashion photography, Iammatteo chose to follow in the footsteps of his renowned photography teacher Robert Del Tredici as a street photographer.

After attending a colleagues video production class, Iammatteo found his true passion. Iammatteo then found himself producing, writing and directing a series of short videos in and outside of school. At 22 he enrolled at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University where he still is enrolled. With little experience in film, he used photography as a basis for his cinematic approach.

Breakthrough
After completing his first year student film “Martyr” shot on standard 16mm film. He decided to start writing his first feature length script. After reading Robert Rodriguez’s Rebel Without a Crew, Iammatteo decided to secure minimal funds for his script. He then convinced twelve of his colleagues to help him produce his first feature film outside the framework of school. Completed in December 2009, Iammatteo now seeks recognition in the 2010 Film Festival run.

Montreal's Next Wave of Cinema for the New Decade
Much like the French New Wave of the 1960's and the American New Wave of the 1970's, the Next Wave promotes a bolder approach to modern cinema. Although radical and experimental in style, this new aesthetic showcases a fresh new array of films to hit screens in the next decade. The first Next Wave film, "My name is Sandy", is directed by Marco Iammatteo will be hitting film festivals in 2010.