Francesca Gentile was born in Turin in 1976 and has a degree in History of Film at Turin University. She works as director and videomaker in television production.

She began dealing with historical memory and in 2000 realized “L’ardua sentenza” (Let history decide), winner of 1st prize at Valsusa Filmfest 2001 and 2nd prize at Corti in Valle in 2003 – a documentary overview in Lecco.

In 2004, she realized for the Council of Turin shorts and promos on the city’s artistic initiatives. She also worked as producer and footage researcher for Spike Lee’s commercial for Telecom Italia “Gandhi” (prod. Colorado Commercials).

In 2007 she directed a short documentary, “Gotan“, later developed into “Alma Doble – memorie argentine per pianoforte e ballerini“, an Italian-French co-production about tango artists Gustavo Beytelmann, Silvia Vladimivsky and Gotan Project. It was selected for Mediterranean Documentary FilmFestival Lavrio (Greece), Born in Malaga Filmfestival (Spain) and Festival del Cinema in Salerno. In 2007 she co-directed the official backstage of Peter Greenaway’s videoinstallation “Peopling the palaces“. She also worked as videomaker in RAI’s documentary production “Il profumo del prato verde” directed by Giorgio Gambino, and Rai Sat Smash “Ma và“, a tv show for kids on sport.

In 2009 she worked for Positive Living, a Toronto based production company, as history researcher for “Gadget girlz“, a tvshow about hi-tech  gadgets for Men Tv Canada, and directed “Eat, it’s good for you“, a cooking show for Telelatino Canada.

Currently she’s working as indipendent director with Current TV dealing with portraits of players in the film-making world (David Cronenberg, Michael Nyman) and reports on society.

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