BIOGRAPHIE

Elena is a filmmaker with several years of tuition and experience on film sets as Continuity and Camera. Her writer/director works spanning documentary, narrative and experimental films, have participated and won prizes in festivals around the world. Catalina meets the pope (2022) is the first narrative (experimental) film she made after engaging in demanding incursions in academia - a PhD on playfulness in Film and Art and a Master in Performance Art. This short film is the first chapter of a film art project of 5 shorts, inspired by Catalina de Erauso. Elena is a queer and feminist activist and her productions, whether performances, audiovisuals, research or hybrids (her favourites) work towards radical social and cultural change. The tools she prefers to create her works as affirmative, engaged and engaging actions are primal play and unbound imagination. Her films are the fruit of complex co-creative processes maximising inventive storytelling. She creates videos, site-specific play-installations and dry-land synchronised swimming street performances; she collaborates with trans activist performer Egon Botteghi. Elena’s multifaceted experiences cover also her geographies, she was born and raised in Italy and has lived in Spain, Australia and Holland, in the last few years she’s been back in Italy.

FILMOGRAPHIE

• 2025 Se Queste Mura Director, Production, Referent, Sales
• 2023 Chi Di Spada Ferisce Director, Production, Referent, Sales
• 2022 Catalina Incontra Il Papa Director, Production, Referent, Sales, Script
• 2008 Red Office Director, Production, Referent, Sales, Script