A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Born in Rome, Italy, on Oct 16th 1976, I grew up and studied in international schools from kindergarten to the middle school, learning english and merging my Italian heritage with a broader, international perspective. I then completed my education in an italian high school and attended University at La Sapienza for 4 years. Film-making runs in my family, as my father, Dardano Sacchetti, is a well known screenplay writer: storytelling and creativity are the corner stone of our family and obviously an extremely important part of my upbringing. Professionally speaking, I have been working as an Asst. Director on many feature films and commercials since 1999, including international productions in Italy and around the world such as 'Gangs of New York'; 'Black Hawk Down'; 'The Passion'; 'The Italian Job'; 'Angels in America', 'Angels & Demons', with directors like Martin Scorsese, Ridley Scott, Mel Gibson, Mike Nichols, Ron Howard, Abel Ferrara. In advertising, some of the most important campains i have worked on include: 'Ferrari', 'Martini', 'Mastercard', 'Coca Cola', 'Bmw', 'Bridgestone', 'Vodafone', 'Philips', 'Gilette', 'Renault', 'Nokia', 'Chanel' and many others. I have always kept my eyes and ears wide open, trying to 'steal' a few secrets here and there from all the great directors, dop's and crew members I have had the honor to work with and have also been working on directing my personal projects in the meantime.
Director:
2005 Cairo
First Assistant Director:
2005 Cairo
2006 Natale a New York
2009 Angels & Demons
2014 Pasolini
2018 Otzi and the Mystery of Time
2023 The Equalizer 3
Screenplay:
2005 Cairo
2006 Natale a New York
2009 Angels & Demons
2014 Pasolini
2018 Otzi and the Mystery of Time
2023 The Equalizer 3
Second Second Assistant Director:
2003 The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
2005 Cairo
2006 Natale a New York
2009 Angels & Demons
2014 Pasolini
2018 Otzi and the Mystery of Time
2023 The Equalizer 3
Set Production Assistant:
2003 The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
2004 The Passion of the Christ
2005 Cairo
2006 Natale a New York
2009 Angels & Demons
2014 Pasolini
2018 Otzi and the Mystery of Time
2023 The Equalizer 3
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.