Pietro Pinto

Pietro Pinto studied Art and Cultures at the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands. He has also studied at the Jerusalem SBF, the Sorbonne in Paris, the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión de Cuba. In 2019 he completed his MFA at San Francisco State University Film School. In 2017, Pinto shot Rosita, presented at the Venice Film Festival within the I Love GAI program. In 2018 he directed the documentary Jerusalem In Between, presented at the Jerusalem Film Festival. His MFA graduate thesis film, Adam, will have its world premiere at the Venice International Critics’ Week in the fall of 2020. In addition, several still photos from his new short film, Icarus, will be featured at the Open Exhibit at the de Young Fine Arts Museum in San Francisco in the fall of 2020. Besides filmmaking, Pinto teaches in the Cinema Department of the San Francisco Film School. Learn more at pietropintofilms.com