Andrea Benjamin Manenti

Andrea Benjamin Manenti is an Italian director of photography, photographer and emerging director.
After graduating from the Bergamo Art High School, he studied directing and digital filmmaking at the SAE Institute Milano,under the guidance of director Mirko Locatelli.
Moved to Rome, he was selected at National Film School, where
he studied photography under the teaching of cinematographer Giuseppe Lanci AIC.
With the director Rossella Inglese is founder of "Fedra Film": they make together the short film "Vanilla", in official selection at the 73rd Venice Film Festival and "Denise", which has received several prestigious awards.
He works as a cinematographer, collaborating with numerous emerging directors and his short films has been selected in more than 100 festivals around the world (St. Louis Int'l Film Festival, Calgary International Film Festival,
Silver Ribbons, Golden Globes , Rome Film Festival).
In 2018 he began his collaboration with director Giulia Grandinetti, signing the co-director of the short film "Guinea Pig" and working on the long-term photographic project "Sentimental Odyssey".
He is currently preparing his debut at the feature film "The Origin of the World" by director Rossella Inglese as director of photography,
and his second short film as a director, "Majoneze".