Gerry Ciccimarra

Black and white portrait of a young person wearing a bucket hat, looking upward with a thoughtful expression.

I’m a film director and screenwriter based in Italy.

I was born in Altamura (Puglia, Italy) in 1999 and have been based in Lecce for several years, where I completed a BA in Set Design at the Academy of Fine Arts with top honors, followed by a Master in Film Production at Aspasia Academy. In 2025, I graduated cum laude with an MA in Performing Arts and Audiovisual Production at the University of Salento.

In 2024, I co-founded Graveyard Studios, a video production company with a dark and expressive visual identity. 

In 2025, I founded Galileo Films, my independent production house focused on visionary narratives and unconventional forms.

As a director, I’ve worked on several short films, including Leftovers (2021), The End of Neslie (2022), Jazzo Inferno (2023), Power Flow (2024), Carattere Unico (2025), and Mercadante (2025), a historical-biographical short about composer Saverio Mercadante, produced by Amaranta Frame.

My work explores themes of memory, solitude, transformation, and belief— often rooted in folklore and superstition, where these forces shape the emotional core of the human experience.

I seek to tell stories when the visible world begins to fracture, allowing something deeper, unresolved, uncanny to emerge.

I’m currently developing my next short film.

"Life is full of infinite absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, because they are true."

- Luigi Pirandello

A young boy and an older person are sitting on a sofa, sharing a moment while looking at a tablet. The boy is leaning on the person, and they seem focused on the device together. The person is wearing a bucket hat and sneakers, and the boy is wearing
A group of four young people filming with a camera on a tripod outdoors, with wooden building and windows in the background.
Filmmaker operating a camera on set, filming actors in period costumes outdoors amid trees and stone pavement.
Filmmaking crew on set, with one person holding a camera and wearing headphones, another person looking down at a device, and a third person in the background, all in a rustic wooden shed.
Filming of a bakery scene with two actors dressed as bakers, a woman and a young boy, in a rustic stone bakery, with crew members and a camera capturing the scene.
A woman with curly dark hair wearing a sleeveless top facing a man in a bucket hat and t-shirt inside a dimly lit wooden room, with sunlight coming through a window.