Donato Rotunno was born in Luxembourg in 1966. A film studies graduate of the Institut des Arts de Diffusion in Louvain-la-Neuve, as a producer, Donato Rotunno co-founded the production company Tarantula Luxembourg in 1995, through which, to date, he has supervised more than 20 feature films. The career of the film director Donato Rotunno started with the short film Fishtrip (1996) and continued with documentaries on themes specific to Luxembourg, including immigration Terra Mia Terra Nostra, 2012 ; Les Mesures du rectangle, 2002), cultural mixing (Blà Blä Blá, 2011), the role of politics in society (André et les voix dissidentes, 1999), and the relationship between contemporary art and film (Making of a picture and Landscape with a corpse, 2003, inspired by the work of Japanese photographer Kaoru Izima).
His first feature-length fiction film, In a Dark Place (2006), won the award for best artistic contribution to the Lëtzebuerger Filmpräis in 2007 and his second film, Baby(a)lone, an adaptation of the novel “Amok” by Luxembourg writer Tullio Forgiarini, tells the story of two lost teenagers, aiming for happiness in a society which has resigned from its duties.
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