Italian director and photographer Andrea Vecchiato graduated from NYU
Film School in 1996, and his senior thesis project, "Lizard Lovers",
was awarded best Experimental Film, Best Cinematography and Best
Soundtrack at the NY First Run Film Festival. In 1997 he moved to
London, where he founded Hadaly Pictures in 1999. Besides winning Best
Film with his first feature
Luminal (2004), at the Rome International
Film Festival in 2004, that film also won Best Photography and the
Jury's Honorable Mention at the Los Angeles High Definition Film
Festival, and the Jury's Honorable Mention at the Thessaloniki
Independent Film Festival, all in that same year. In addition Andrea
contributed to one of the episodes of
Bem-Vindo a São Paulo (2004),
a documentary about the Brazilian city, seen through the lenses of 13
different directors, and he writes a monthly journal titled "In The
Mood For Film", for fashion magazine "PIG".