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Donato Rotunno, born on the 8th of May 1966 (53 years old) in Luxembourg, is a luxembourgish film director and producer. Vice-president of the Luxembourgish Union of Audiovisual Producers (ULPA), he is the co-founder of the production company Tarantula Luxembourg in 1995, and of the production company Tarantula Belgique in 1996. In 2011, he founded Tarantula Distribution, through which he aims to carry the projects he produces to the audience. In 2013, he associates with other luxemburgish producers to create and manage Filmland studios, in Kehlen (Luxembourg), containing 4000m2 of shooting studios, productions offices and post-production services.

Biography
Donato Rotunno was born in Luxembourg. In 1992, he graduates in cinema studies at the Institut des Arts de Diffusion in Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium. In 1995, Donato Rotunno co-founded the production company : Tarantula Luxembourg, alongside he supervised, as a producer, more than 24 feature films. His filmmaker career started with his short film Fishtrip (1996), and continued with documentaries on specific themes to Luxembourg as immigration with: Terra Mia Terra Nostra and Les Mesures du rectangle ; cultural mixing with Blà Blä Blá ; the place politics take in our society with André et les voix dissidentes, or the relationship between contemporary art and cinema with Making of a picture and Landscape with a corpse (inspired by the work of Japanese photographer Kaoru Izima); or more recently, his docudrama Dreams have a language which was codirected with the French artist Sylvie Blocher. His first feature, In a dark place won the prize of best artistic contribution at Lëtzebuerger Filmpräis in 2007. Baby(a)lone, his second feature, is adapted from the novel Amok written by Tullio Forgiarini, the film was selected in many festivals around the world and represented Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg at the 88th edition of the Academy Awards in Best foreign film. Now, his next feature film Io sto bene is currently in postproduction, and addresses the same kind of issues that were seen in his documentary Terra Mia Terra Nostra.

Filmography
1992: Nebbiolo Rosso / Short film

1996: Fishtrip  / Short film

1998: Terra Mia / Documentary (52 min)

1999: André et les voix dissidentes / Documentary (52 min)

2005: Landscape with a Corpse / Middle-length movie (30 min) - Inspired by the work of Japanese photographer Izima Kaoru. Coproduction Casino Luxembourg - Forum d’Art Contemporain / MUDAM Luxembourg - Musée d’Art Moderne Grand Duc Jean / Tarantula

2005: Les Mesures du Rectangle / Documentary (52 min)

2006: In a dark place / Feature film (110 min)

2011: Blà, Blä, Blá / Documentary (52 min)

2012: Terra Mia Terra Nostra / Documentary (82 min) - Official selection of Festival du Film Italien de Villerupt 2012

2015: Baby(a)lone  / Feature film -  adaptation from the novel by Tullio Forgiarini «Amok»

2020: Io sto bene / Feature film

Rewards
Prize of the French Community of Belgium for «Nebbiolo Rosso» 1992

Producer on the move  at the Cannes Film Festival 2001

Best artistic contribution at Lëtzebuerger Filmpraïs 2007 for «In A Dark Place»

Baby(a)lone representing the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg at the 88th edition of the Oscars in the « Best foreign film » category