Cecilia Rizzuto

Cecilia Rizzuto was born in Milan in 1998. She studies Art History and, since 2019, has worked as a freelance lighting and set designer for live events, commercials, and films, as well as a production assistant for events and fashion videos. Since 2023, she has been living between Milan and Rome, beginning her career as a director by creating experimental films: the photo-novels Titus and Titovskij, which won the Satellite Award at the Sottovenere Festival, Best Experimental Film at the Moonlight Film Festival, and Best Sound at the Ceprano Film Festival—the first two chapters of a trilogy that will conclude with Titus Apocalypse. In 2024, she co-directed two documentaries with Marco Pinnavaia: the short film Davide, where are you?, born from the Cinemabruzzo Campus environmental cinema residency, and the feature-length film about the pilgrimage of the Gypsies in Camargue, ¡Volare Volare!, which won Best Film at the RROMA Film Festival. In October 2025, she shot her debut fiction short film Amanti a Mano Armata in Milan, a black-and-white love story. Meanwhile, she continues her associative work with the Chuormo Film Collective, which promotes cinema by emerging artists, and serves as the artistic director of the Felice Film Festival, whose second edition will take place in Rome in May 2026. Passionate about photography, architecture, and painting, she loves exploring interdisciplinarity among the arts in her cinema.