Stop The Pounding Heart

He is an Italian-born film director, who lives and works in the U.S. He is widely considered to be one of the world’s most prominent auteurs of narrative documentaries, which combine dramatized and observational elements. After completing a Master of Arts in Media Studies at the New School in New York City, in 2007 he moved to Texas, where he directed three feature films, a Texas Trilogy that focused on rural communities in the American South. He then went on to direct two feature films set in Louisiana, shifting to the political realm of American society and touching on social injustice. In more recent years, he has begun to produce the work of other visionary filmmakers, including Payal Kapadia and Lisandro Alonso.