SMK Factory is an independent audiovisual production company formed by professionals in the film industry and in particular documentary film. The collective project was born in 2009, gaining its current form in 2019.
We believe in a cinema of social impact and this has always pushed us to grasp the urgency of storytelling and the need to share the meaning that the stories of our films express.
For us, producing a film means focusing on how our works are produced, made and distributed. We work to build community around the film and the story it tells, we set up crowdfunding campaigns and widespread distribution in the territories in order to nurture social and political dynamics.
This model, which sees popular co-production and distribution as two sides of the same coin, has allowed us to make 10 films in 11 years of our group's life, giving national relevance and diffusion to stories that otherwise would not have been told.
SMK Factory produced different movies with crowdfunding campains after “Tomorrow’s Land”: “Kosovo vs Kosovo” (2012), “Una follia effimera” (2012), “Green Lies” (2014), “Vite al Centro” (2014), “Quale Petrolio?” (2016), “The Harvest” (2017). “The Milky Way” (2020).
Filmmaker and author of documentaries, photographic reportages, installations and videos for theatre, dance and the arts. The feature films he has worked on have been screened in Italy and abroad, receiving several awards at national and international festivals.
His latest film “Sarura. The future is an unlknown place” was co-produced by Al Jazeera and distributed worldwide by Journeyman Pictures, awarded at numerous international film festivals including the Grand Prix at Annaba Mediterranean FF, Best Film Arab Network Human Right Films (during Karama Human Rights Film Festival), Human Rights Doc (Naples Human Rights Film Festival), Best Feature Film (Activists without borders), Best Photography (Documentaria Film Festival), Best Film - Human Rights Award Valentina Pedicini (Life after OIL FF) among others.
He is responsible for the direction of photography.
He graduated in Hermeneutic Philosophy with a thesis on the narrative identity of the Self; he obtained a master’s degree in documentary cinema at the IED in Milan