Synopsis

Director's biography
Born in 1998. She holds a degree in Cultural Heritage from Ca’ Foscari University and a Master’s in Cinema and New Media from IULM University in Milan. She began her career in film as an assistant director on Gabriele Salvatores’ Il Ritorno di Casanova. She currently works as an assistant director and casting assistant in her home region, Veneto. She was selected for the Serial Writing Training Camp at the Holden School in Turin and as a semifinalist for Giffonihub’s Smack Down! format, with the feature film project Vendetta su misura.
Alongside her film work, she also works as a voice actress in Milan.
Among her projects, the short film Mela Bacata (2022) was a finalist at the Giffoni School Experience competition and later developed into a serial project, reaching the finals of the Premio Solinas Experimenta Serie 2025. Her short film concept L’oracolo (2024) was selected for the Corto Lovere artistic residency, “Occhi sul Lago,” chaired by film critic Gianni Canova, and won first prize. In February 2025, she was selected by Giorgio Diritti to participate in Bottega XNL 2025. Between February and July 2025, she took part in the OffiCine IED 2025 workshop, where she was selected as director for the short film Oltre la collina (2025), starring Matteo Oscar Giuggioli and Carla Signoris.

Credits
Director: Andrea Maddalena Bernardi
Screenplay: Elisa Di Francesco, Alice De Luca
Cinematography: Ikram Chaffoui
Editing: Vincenzo Bafaro
Music: Andrea Massaria, Antonio Pontoriero, Michele Arena
Producer: Angela Ferramosca, Fabio Gandolfi
Sound design: Gungor Utlu
Specifications
Original title: Oltre la Collina
Running time: 12'
Film type: Fiction
Country: Italy
Completion date: September 2025




