Alessandro Soetje

Nantucket Film

BIOGRAPHIE

Born in Bologna in 1970, Alessandro Soetje is a director and cinematographer based in Milan. During his university studies, which led him to a degree in Philosophy at the State University of Milan, he began working first as a photographer and then as cinematographer for documentaries, news and entertainment for various national and foreign televisions. In 1993, he won the National Photography Competition Erotica ’93 with five female nudes. In 1998, his documentary “Bambini d’Africa” was awarded the Giglio d’Argento at the Valdarno Film Festival, the FEDIC prize at the Montecatini Film Festival and a special nomination at the African Film Festival. In 2000, he collaborated on the last TV documentary series by Sergio Zavoli, “Viaggio nel scuola (A Journey into School)” broadcasted by Rai 3. Then, in 2003, he joined the National Order of Journalists, as a freelance journalist. Following this, he has been a director for branded contents, commercials and cinematographer for many documentaries. In 2013 he restarted his documentary film maker career with “Our Stone,” completed in 2018, and selected in competition, among others, at the Festival des Films du Monde in Montreal. The documentary also won the “Diari di Cineclub” price at the Valdarno Film Festival in 2021. 
He also made seven documentaries for the TV show “Geo” broadcasted by RAI 3 and the documentary “Old Wild Lorenz,” awarded for best direction at the San Giò Video Festival in Verona. With the campaign “Aware Migrants,” for which he conducted 50 interviews with migrants and four short documentaries, he won the 30th International Grand Prix Advertising Strategies. The campaign was also in the Short List at the Clio Awards in New York 2017. “The Power of Beauty” (2019), episode of the documentary “Tomorrow and the Butterfly” won the French Riviera Film Festival in 2020. His documentaries “Matera, Mother of Stone” ( 2019) and “Valtellina and its Mountains” (2021, winner of the FEDIC price at the Frankfurt Literary Salon in 2022) were broadcasted by ARTE. His last works are the documentary “Captain Carnival” and the short film “When the Rain Falls in Baden-Baden”

FILMOGRAPHIE