Luca Ciuti

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About me

Born July 18th 1979 in Pisa. Luca graduated at high school after attending a classical tuition at "Liceo Ginnasio Galileo Galilei" in Pisa. Meanwhile he developed a great passion in still photography along his second love: movies. Hence he decided to submit to the University of Pisa in order to attend the cinema classes. He then decided to try to join his two passions into one and try to learn filmmaking. He quit the university and moved to New York where he attended an eight week intensive workshop at New York Film Academy, where he realized his path as a cinematographer as well as fine tuning his already good english that he has been learning since age 4 at school, through whatching original language movies and reading original language comic books and original language books. After the three months spent in New York he moved to Rome where he spent one year in a production company learning the tools of film production while he was preparing to submit his application form to the "Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia" cinematography course which tutor was Giuseppe Rotunno, AIC, ASC. Whithin hundreds he got third and was accepted to attend the three years full immersion cinematography course with the previously named Giuseppe Rotunno as well as many others cinematographer well known in the industry (i.e. Luciano Tovoli, AIC, ASC; Gianni Fiore Coltellacci, AIC, etc.). After three years spent practising with state of the art 35mm cameras, lights, sound stages, grip accessories, labs and post houses he then graduated in cinematography in December 2004. He moved for three months in Los Angeles where he met many of the major cinematographer thanks to whom he attended a special course at Kodak to learn the brand new KLMS (Kodak Look Manager System) software. He then received a special letter from Kodak itself stating his skills in using the software. He then had to move back to Europe cause of the impossibility to get a permanent working visa no matter the special skills and the letters written to him by other cinematographers like Tom Stern, ASC as well as labs like Technicolor (where he previously collaborated with senior timer Mike Mertenz in Italy). Since spring 2005 he has worked as a cinematographer either in the UK and in Italy. Now he resided solely in the UK since 2008.
Referees:
Giuseppe Rotunno AIC, ASC; Gianni Fiore Coltellacci, AIC
Additional information:
Represented by agent Sarah Prince @ Princestone agency (www.princestonecom)

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Secondary Job Title	Camera Operator
Job Titles	Camera Operator, Cinematographer
Years in industry	6+ years