-Who is Jacopo Marchini?

I’m a Director and Cinematographer based in Rome and my projects mainly range from music videos to films and TV series. I think that my attitude and passion for both directing and cinematography allowed me to earn some credits with top quality artists and with the largest record labels such as Sony Music, Warner Music and Universal Music. In 2019 I’ve been accepted as an Associate Member by the prestigious Italian Association of Cinematographer (AIC) and i’m is still part of it. In 2021, with the experience accumulated in the audiovisual industry, I founded a production company, “Movi Production SRL” which obtained considerable feedback in the film market by producing a short film, already in the first year of life, selected for the Oscar Qualifying. And then in 2023 I shoot my first feature film, a production halfway between Cinecittà and New York where I had the immense honor of lighting Mariel Hamingway (Oscar winner with Woody Allen’s Manhattan) and Christopher Coppola. And yet I feel like my journey has yet to truly begin.

-What inspired you to become a Cinematographer?

I grew up in a family of photographers and had my first “photoshoot” at the age of 16 during a high school trip. From there I never stopped to explore the world of photography. I’ve been really lucky because I met people who believed in me right away and this gave me the opportunity to take some portraits of celebrities like Donald Sutherland, Penelepe Cruz, Javier Bardem, Matt Damon, George Clooney and others. However, something wasn’t enough for me and I felt the need to explore even more deeply so I approached Cinematography and Direction. And I still feel like my journey has just begun.

-Do you think the cinema can bring a change in the society?

Cinema, like music and more generally art, do not have a specific utility like that which a doctor or an engineer might have but they have the power to raise awareness and excite like nothing else in the world. The further I get in my career, the more my studies look to the past of the greats. I go further and further back and discover more and more wonderful things making myself and my works better day by day. Society needs great art more than ever because we are simply getting lost under the infinite mass of false information and weak interests that are characterizing recent years. So yes! We need great cinema that moves us and teaches us healthy values. We need it now.

-What would you change in the world?

There are many things I would change in the world but I think one wins above all. And it is the need that we should find, especially the new generations, to surround themselves with beauty. And I don’t mean the beautiful woman because tastes are subjective. I mean music made by musicians who have studied, I mean watching films by directors who have something important to say and have studied night and day to be able to say it, I mean the beauty of turning off the phone at the table, the beauty of sharing photos without waiting for number of likes, they took away our concerts without our phones and we now go to the concert just to record it, not to live it. These times have taken away our priorities and replaced them with surrogates of what they tell us we should like. We urgently need to get back in touch with ourselves. I would change this.

-Where do you see the film industry going in the next 100 years?

Unfortunately I don’t have good prospects for our industry. I think we will get to a point where it will collapse and finally start from scratch. But in Italy everything is more difficult, fortunately there is still a lot of quality international cinema. For posterity the arduous sentence.