Tiago Branchini

Tiago Ignacio Branchini was born in Brazil (*1985) in a Methodist family, where music was his first contact with the world of art. At sixteen years, he started a group of punk-rock becoming one of the most representative bands of their region within three years . Writing poetry and composing songs he discovered the power of the moving image and choose to study cinema. He graduated with a short film and afterwards moved to Italy, where he made two short fiction and a short documentary film. After living  in Milan for three years he moved to Rome, where he started the project Sol@zione making seven video interviews with people who are committed to a common good. The year after, he started his cinema Masters at the University La Sapienza of Rome, currently finishing a short film as director and screenwriter. He is active in the Protestant youth organisation in Italy and member of the Protestant Cinema Association “Roberto Sbaffi”.