Green Over Gray: Emilio Ambasz

Francesca Molteni, graduated in Philosophy at the University of Milan, studied Film Production at New York University. Since 2002, she produces and directs documentaries, tv formats, videos, and curates design exhibitions. In 2009 she founded MUSE Factory of Projects, a production company based in Milan. In 2012 she received the Award for Innovation assigned by the President of the Italian Republic, and the Compasso d’Oro honorable mention. In 2013, the Cathay Pacific Award for women entrepreneurs. She’s a contributor to Vogue and Casa Vogue Italy, GQ, Elle Decor, IlSole24Ore; and the author of the book Oggetti d’impresa [Objects of Enterprise], 2016.
She documented the 2016 US election for La Casa Bianca [The White House], a TV program, Rai3. Among the latest films she directed, ​“The Power of the Archive. Renzo Piano Building Workshop” (2018), and ​“NEWMUSEUM(S). Stories of Company Archives and Museums” (2019), ​“Aldo Rossi Design” (2022), and ​“Green Over Gray. Emilio Ambasz (2023).

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Mattia Colombo​’s first documentary short Il Velo [The Veil] was in competition at Vision du Réel; EIFF Edinburgh International Film Festival; AFI Silverdocs Discovery; Dialektus Film Festival; XI Circuito Off (Venice) where it won two awards. The documentary Alberi che camminano [Trees that walk], written with Erri De Luca, competed in many international festivals. Voglio dormire con te [I wanna sleep with you], Italian-French production with the support of the Lombardia Film Commission and the CNC, was selected to compete at several festivals including Cinéma du Réel 2015. Il passo [The step], written and directed with Alessandra Locatelli and Francesco Ferri, was presented at Visions du Réel (Nyon) and as a special event at Filmmaker Festival, Milan. He directed Ritmo Sbilenco [Lopsided rhythm], a documentary about the italian band Elio e le Storie Tese. Uninvited, a biopic about Marcelo Burlon, outsider fashion designer and DJ, was released in theaters in 2017. Mattia directed B Heroes, produced by YAM112003 for SKY UNO and SKY DOCUMENTARIES, and is working, together with Valentina Cicogna, on the Sconosciuti Puri, a documentary film on the activity of Labanof, a laboratory founded by the coroner Cristina Cattaneo that deals with the identification of the ​“nameless dead”. In 2021 he wrote and directed, together with Beniamino Barrese, the short film White Noise, a production Muse Factory of Projects for Molteni&C

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