Roberto Minervini

Roberto Minervini is an Italian photographer, filmmaker, music producer and teacher living and working in the United States. He received his MA in media studies from New York’s New School, and is currently studying for a PhD. in film history at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Stop the Pounding Heart, which was premiered in its official selection by the Cannes festival this year, concludes Minervini’s thematically and aesthetically related Texas trilogy which began with the road movie The Passage (2011) and continued with the drama about solitude Low Tide (2012). Prior to this, Minervini shot several short films and collaborated with musicians from the electronic scene, including the duo Funkstörung.

MFF Karlovy Vary