Alessia Mandanici

Wiegenlied (Lullaby) (Feature Film)

Position: Writer, Director

Production: Tidewater Pictures

Status: In financing / in development

Schwarzmoll (Blackmoll) (Short Film)

Position: Writer, Director, Editor, Casting

Production: Tidewater Pictures, Holy Cannoli Films, Gigantic Studios

Festivals: Woodstock Film Festival 2024 (Oscar-qualifying), Hof International Film Festival 2024, FILMZ Festival des deutschen Kinos 2024, St. Louis International Film Festival 2024, Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis 2025

Lentini (Short Film)

Position: Writer, Director, Editor, Casting

Production: Andrew Long, Andrea Santoro, Alessia Mandanici

Festivals: Stony Brook Film Festival 2022, Austin Film Festival 2022 (Oscar-qualifying), Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival, International Film Festival Salerno 2022, Dam Short Film Festival 2023, San Francisco Arthouse Short Festival 2023

NYU Tisch School of the Arts – MFA, Writing and Directing

Hochschule RheinMain – BA, Communication Design

FILMZ Festival des deutschen Kinos – Best Local Short (Audience Award) for Schwarzmoll (Blackmoll)

Hof International Film Festival – Nominated for Best Short Audience Award for Schwarzmoll (Blackmoll)

San Francisco Arthouse Short Festival – Best Female Director for Lentini

Stony Brook Film Festival – Opening Night Short Award for Lentini

76th International Film Festival Salerno – Targa Short Film Prize for Lentini

64th Berlin International Film Festival – Berlinale Hessen Talent (Time to Go)

exground filmfest 25 – Best Short Film (Audience Award) for Spieglein, Spieglein (Mirror, Mirror)

62nd Berlin International Film Festival – Berlinale Hessen Talent (Spieglein, Spieglein)