Francesca di Mottola

Francesca Di Mottola is a Production Designer working across Film, Television and Theatre. After graduating from the Theatre Design for Performance course at Central Saint Martins in London, Francesca worked as a Draftsperson and Art Director on many feauture films. These included Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd (2007) and Anthony Minghella's Cold Mountain (2002), both of which gave her the chance to work alongside Oscar-winners Dante Ferretti and Francesca Lo Schiavo.

Francesca's first feature film as Production Designer was I Am Love, directed by Luca Guadagnino and starring Tilda Swinton. The film was a critical success and received numerous awards worldwide. Francesca received the International Cinephile Award for Best Production Design for her work on the film.

She was also nominated for the Satellite Awards and long-listed for a BAFTA. Francesca has designed sets for a 2011 production of 'Falstaff' (G. Verdi) for the Teatro Filarmonico di Verona, directed by Luca Guadagnino and conducted by Daniele Rustioni.

More recently Francesca designed a 10 episode TV series '1992', a political thriller set in Italy, produced by SKY Atlantic, which previewed as part of the 2015 Berlin Film Festival's new experimental TV fiction and was aired in Italy and the UK in March 2015. Alongside her feature film and television work, Francesca has also worked on many commercials, short films and music videos collaborating amongst others with directors such as Mike Figgis, Yorgos Lanthimos, Todd Field, Fanny Ardant, Michael Haussman and Jordan Scott.

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