Laurentina Guidotti

FILM PRODUCER
ITALIA

She trained at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinemato- grafia, and made her acting debut at a very young age, in the late 1980s, in films such as Federico Fellini’s ‘Ginger & Fred’ and Nanni Loy’s ‘All My Friends, Part 3’. In 2024, she returned to the screen with Ciro de Caro’s ‘Taximonamour’. At the age of twenty, she produced her first film, ‘The Dandelions’, which was invited to participate in the Venice Film Festival.

After two years studying and working in New York and Los Angeles, she returned to Italy and founded Iterfilm, an independent production company of which she became president. With Iterfilm she has produced documentaries such as ‘Furio Scarpelli: il racconto prima di tuto’, ‘Gian Luigi Rondi: la voce critica del cinema italiano’ (Silver Rib- bon, 71st Venice Film Festival, Globo d’Oro 2015), ‘Barbieri d’Italia’, ‘Roman Abramovich – L’Equilibrista’, ‘Mario Verdone - Il critico viaggiatore’ and ‘La Croce e la Swastika’.

She has likewise produced the feature films ‘Abissinia’, directed by Francesco Ranieri Martinotti (David di Donatello, Cannes Critics’ Week), ‘Cresceranno i carciofi a Mimongo’, by Fulvio Ottaviano, ‘Branchie’, by Francesco Ranieri Martinotti, and ‘Quore’, by Federica Pontremoli. Since 2014 she has produced, with Urania Pictures and together with Conchita Airoldi, ‘Daydreams’, by Caroline Deruas, ‘The Other Woman’, by Daniel Auteuil and ‘The Apparition’, by Xavier Giannoli, as well as ‘1991’, directed by Ricardo Trogi, ‘Benedetta’, by Paul Verhoeven, and ‘Dark Glasses’, by Dario Argento.

In 2024, she became president of Urania Pictures, with which she presented Claude Lelouch’s ‘Finalement’ in Venice and produced Peter Marcias’ ‘Quasi grazia’, which will be released in 2026. Her list of awards includes two David di Donatello awards, two Silver Ribbons, the Montreal Jury Prize and the Annecy Film Festival Audience Award, in addition to having participated in the Cannes, Sundance and Venice film festivals.