Simone Mariani is an Italian-American actor, writer, director and producer.[1][2][3] He was born on April 2, 1964, in Rome, Italy.[4] He appeared in the Hollywood film Inferno directed by Ron Howard and starring Tom Hanks.

His short films have been shown at national and international festivals including the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival. In 2006, he produced and acted in the short film Iram la Città Dalle Alte Colonne, an interpretation of a text by Kahlil Gibran. This film won a Critics' Award at the 2006 Arab Film Festival.

He is the author of The Juggler (2007), which was selected for a world tour by the IFCT Festival 2007 in Miami, Florida, United States.

In 2008 he debuted as a director for the short film The Artist, in which he also played the lead male role. He is the author, producer and performer in the short film The Father (2011). A Journey on the Tabla (2015) is his first documentary film.

He is a practitioner of Sunmudo— a martial art practiced by Korean Seon (Zen) monks.

Filmography

Actor (partial)

  • The Italian Dream
  • Inferno
  • Il commissario Rex (TV series)
  • Distretto di polizia (TV series)
  • Enrico Mattei: The Man who Looked to the Future (TV film)
  • La contessa di Castiglione (TV film)
  • Mafia Signs (TV film)
  • Imperium: Saint Peter (TV film)
  • De Gasperi, l'uomo della speranza (TV film)

Writer-director-producer (partial)

  • A Journey on the Tabla (documentary)[5]
  • The Father (short)
  • L'Artista (short)

Film festivals

  • The Juggler (2007), selected for world tour from IFCT Festival 2007 in Miami (USA)
  • A Journey on the Tabla selected to screen in India[6]

Recognition

  • Best Italian Documentary at Roma CineDoc for A Journey on the Tabla[7]
  • Critics Prize at Arab Film Festival 2006 for Iram, The City by the High Columns

Jury member

  • International Competition for Short Films & Student Short Films category at the All Lights India International Film Festival[8]

References

  1. ↑ "SIMONE MARIANI - Resume | Actors Access". resumes.actorsaccess.com. Retrieved 2017-05-14.
  2. ↑ "attori - RBCasting". www.rbcasting.com (in Italian). Retrieved 2017-05-14.
  3. ↑ http://www.italiandoc.it/area/public/wid/CZCE/scheda.htm
  4. ↑ "Simone Mariani". IMDb. Retrieved 2017-05-01.
  5. ↑ "A Journey on the Tabla". en.menarfest.com.
  6. ↑ "DELHI: Film Festivals from Europe". www.iicnewdelhi.esteri.it.
  7. ↑ "ROMA CINEMA DOC 2016 - Roma Cinema Doc". 26 September 2016.
  8. ↑ "Jury panel - All Lights India International Film Festival". aliiff.com.
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