Biography

Jacopo Quadri

Director

a still from the film "The Country where Trees Fly"

a still from the film "The Country where Trees Fly"

Jacopo Quadri has edited over sixty films that have screened at the world’s leading festivals, such as Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician by Mario Martone, the winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Venice, and the Golden Lion winner Sacro GRA by Gianfranco Rosi. Quadri has worked with Bernardo Bertolucci, Marco Bechis, Paolo Virzì, Zhang Yuan, Apitchapong Weerasethakul, Francesca Archibugi and Alessandro Rossetto, among others. In 2014, Jacopo Quadri made a documentary about Luca Ronconi, La scuola d’estate, which premiered at the Turin Film Festival. He is president of the association Ubu per Franco Quadri, which organises the annual Ubu theatre awards.