Thomas Torelli

Birth : 1975-05-06, Rome - Italy

History

Thomas Torelli is a Rome based director and producer of films and documentaries with particular emphasis on those related to social themes. After a long experience as an editor and executive producer, Thomas founded Xtend in 2001, a company operating in the field of production and post-production for film and television, and in 2003 Telemaco. He has collaborated with different roles at some of the most interesting titles of the independent Italian cinema of recent years, such CRAJ by Davide Marengo awarded the Lino Miccichè Award for the Best Opera Prima at the Venice Film Festival 2005 (co-editor); Dall’altra parte della Luna, the first Italian “rockumentary”, story of the group Negramaro, presented at the Venice Film Festival 2007 (director of post-production). In 2006 he served as executive producer and co-author on Franco Fracassi and Francesco Trento’s feature documentary ZERO: An Investigation into 9/11 where revealing presentations by Nobel Prize winner Dario Fo and American literary icon Gore Vidal explore the sequence of “contradictions, gaps, and omissions” in the official version of events surrounding the attacks. ZERO was presented at the International Film Festival of Rome 2007 and was winner of the Audience Award at the Festival Internacional de Cine Documental de la Ciudad de México in 2008. Distributed in more than 70 countries in five continents in theaters, on DVD and on television, the film has become the movie-symbol of the struggle for the truth about September 11th. As a producer, Thomas has made several documentaries, including Dario Baldi’s Pablo - The poet’s lives, a journey to the memory of a great Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda, presented at the AFI Film Festival of Los Angeles 2005 and the Montreal Film Festival 2006. In 2007, Francesca Nava’s L’altro Messico – Il ritorno del Subcomandante Marcos. 50% of the profit of this film was donated to the Zapatista communities. Mario Balsamo’s Sognavo le nuvole colorate, a documentary about the history of Edison Duraj, a nine-year old Albanian child who emigrated to Italy on a raft, alone without his parents. The film was presented at the 2008 Locarno Film Festival. In 2009 he produced and directed Sangue e Cemento, the first documentary about the earthquake in Abruzzo,  released in theaters and nominated at the Nastri d’Argento for Best Documentary of the Year. In 2011, he co-edited and produced, with the contribution of the Piedmont Film Commission, The brat syndrome by Alberto Coletta, a documentary about ADHD (Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder) told through the story of Julia, a “hyperactive and inattentive” girl. He has just finished directing the documentary Another World, a journey through science and consciousness, individual and planetary, exploring our relationships with ourselves, the world around us and the universe as a whole, demonstrating how connected we really all are as opposed to the sense of separation that characterizes much of modern thought. In the summer of 2013, the production of the film documentary Serial Killers started, with the objective of being completed by the end of 2014.

Movies

Il Sentiero della GIOIA
Director
Il Sentiero della GIOIA
Choose Love
Writer
Choose Love
Director
Food ReLOVution
Director
“Food Relovution: What We Eat Can Make A Difference” is an eye-opening and compelling feature documentary that examines the consequences of the meat culture as concerns grow about health, world hunger, animal welfare and the environmental cost of livestock production. It aims to show how these global issues affect everyone and are interrelated, and how making our food choices with a sense of awareness, knowing what we are buying and what we are eating is the first fundamental step towards a better world.
Food ReLOVution
Writer
“Food Relovution: What We Eat Can Make A Difference” is an eye-opening and compelling feature documentary that examines the consequences of the meat culture as concerns grow about health, world hunger, animal welfare and the environmental cost of livestock production. It aims to show how these global issues affect everyone and are interrelated, and how making our food choices with a sense of awareness, knowing what we are buying and what we are eating is the first fundamental step towards a better world.
Pachamama
Director
Un altro mondo
Writer
A feature documentary about the journey of mankind to discover our true force and who we truly are. It is a quest through science and consciousness, individual and planetary, exploring our relationships with ourselves, the world around us and the universe as a whole.
Un altro mondo
Director
A feature documentary about the journey of mankind to discover our true force and who we truly are. It is a quest through science and consciousness, individual and planetary, exploring our relationships with ourselves, the world around us and the universe as a whole.
Sangue e cemento
Producer
One year after the earthquake that devastated Abruzzo, Sangue e Cemento retraces recent causes and remote responsibilities of those who built poorly to save on materials and techniques, of those who had to control but did not, of the administrators who favored speculation at the expense of the safety of citizens, who paid a price of 299 victims. Interviews and testimonies to seismologists, geologists, territorial and construction technicians, lawyers and judges enrich this film-document that was made by Gruppo Zero, a collective of journalists, filmmakers and communicators who produce investigative documentaries for correct information and free from manipulation.
Sangue e cemento
Writer
One year after the earthquake that devastated Abruzzo, Sangue e Cemento retraces recent causes and remote responsibilities of those who built poorly to save on materials and techniques, of those who had to control but did not, of the administrators who favored speculation at the expense of the safety of citizens, who paid a price of 299 victims. Interviews and testimonies to seismologists, geologists, territorial and construction technicians, lawyers and judges enrich this film-document that was made by Gruppo Zero, a collective of journalists, filmmakers and communicators who produce investigative documentaries for correct information and free from manipulation.
Sangue e cemento
Director
One year after the earthquake that devastated Abruzzo, Sangue e Cemento retraces recent causes and remote responsibilities of those who built poorly to save on materials and techniques, of those who had to control but did not, of the administrators who favored speculation at the expense of the safety of citizens, who paid a price of 299 victims. Interviews and testimonies to seismologists, geologists, territorial and construction technicians, lawyers and judges enrich this film-document that was made by Gruppo Zero, a collective of journalists, filmmakers and communicators who produce investigative documentaries for correct information and free from manipulation.
The Other Mexico
Producer
"The Other Mexico" focuses on that nation's poor and indigenous citizens who have no voice in the political system. Many of them have gravitated to the growing Zapatista movement led by its leader, Subcomandante Marcos. Some feel Marcos is a true folk hero while others view him as an opportunist seeking personal fame. Leading journalists and scholars debate the pros and cons of the movement as it tries to organize the country's disaffected before the 2006 presidential election.
Zero An Investigation Into 9-11
Producer
ZERO: An Investigation into 9/11, has one central thesis - that the official version of the events surrounding the attacks on 9/11 can not be true. This brand new feature documentary explores the latest scientific evidence and reveals dramatic new witness testimony, which directly conflicts with the US Government's account.
Zero An Investigation Into 9-11
Writer
ZERO: An Investigation into 9/11, has one central thesis - that the official version of the events surrounding the attacks on 9/11 can not be true. This brand new feature documentary explores the latest scientific evidence and reveals dramatic new witness testimony, which directly conflicts with the US Government's account.