Angelo Marotta was born in Reggio Calabria (Italy) on May 3rd 1967. In 1989 he starts his career as an assistant cameraman and than cameraman at MedMedia Produzioni Televisive, a co-operative production society based in Reggio Calabria, working for different types of TV programmes, news, advertising and reportage for regional, national and international broadcasters. Between 1989 and 1995, as cameraman, he works for ArchiMed, Med-Media visual anthropology Archive filming topics as traditional music, feasts, material culture, identity and place.
In 1995 he moves to Rome where he starts working on Natural History documentaries and with Paneikon, a leading production company in Italy, works at the realization of many national and international co-productions.
Since 2002 his field of interest and activity has widen up to include social and anthropological documentaries for which he starts collaborating with other Italian and international production companies.
Thanks to his background and to the multifaceted experience gained through the years he nowadays chooses to work with different roles in the production of different documentaries: author, director of photography, camera operator, soundman, assistant cameraman.
Piccoli così è un film documentario che racconta le storie di bambini e ragazzi nati prematuri.
2014 - “Holy Money”, di Jesus Garcés Lambert. Soundman. GA&A Productions in coproduction with ZDF-ARTE and Al Jazeera America, in association with CBC, CBC-SRC, RTS, VRT, NRK, SVT. Super 35 - 60'
2013 - “La scelta del Papa”, by Jesus Garcés Lambert. Soundman. GA&A Productions. DSLR - 75'
2011 - “Attacco al cuore delle palme”, by Angelo Marotta. Paneikon for RAI Superquark. HDV / DSLR - 7'
2011 - “The Floating Church”, by Nello Correale. Co-photography with Marco Pasquini. Paneikon - Paramonti - NDR. Co-financed by MEDIA e MIBAC. HDV - 52'
2011 - “La voce di Rosa” (a portrait of the Sicilian singer Rosa Balistreri), by Nello Correale. Cophotography with Giulio Pietromarchi. Tipota Movie Company. HD – 72'
2009 - “L'enigma di Violet Gibson”, by Gabriella Romano. Director of photography. Paneikon – Istituto Luce - RAI. HDV – 50'
2009 - “L'uomo dalla bocca storta”, by Emanuele Salce and Andrea Pergolari. Co-photography with Mauro Ricci. Baires Film with Regione Lazio, MIBAC and Istituto Luce. Digital Betacam – 56'
2007 - “Le mucche del parmigiano”, di Costanze Reuscher. Director of photography. ARTE – ZDF. Digital Betacam – 26’
2007 - “Le Carriere del 19”, by Grazia Barberini and Angelo Marotta. Director of photography. Paneikon for RAI Tre - Italian Public Broadcasting. Dvcam – 25’
2007 - “Il prezzo da pagare”, by Umberto Nigri. Co-photography with Massimiliano Torchia. LA7. Betacam – 2 x 50’
2006 - “Il mercato del tartufo bianco ad Alba”, by Udo Vieth. Director of photography. ARTE - ZDF. Digital Betacam – 26’
2006 - “Tease – The art and the heart of Burlesque”, by Nancy Gregory. Co-photography with Ugo Adilardi. Paneikon and Katell Production. Dvcam – 1 x 50’
2006 - “Sopra una nuvola”, by Angelo Marotta. GA&A Productions for RAI 3. Dvcam – 1 x 30’
2006 - “La Marinella”, by Maurizio Iannelli and Michela Guberti. Camera operator. La Bastoggi – Rai Tre. Dvcam – 52’
2005/06 - “Travels & Traditions”, by Burt Wolf. Acorn Associates for PBS. Camera assistant. Betacam – 5 x 30’
2005 - “Pasquale Raffa”, by Angelo Marotta. Co-produced with Paneikon and with the support of MEDIA programme - Dvcam 1 x 73’
2005 - “Le mille storie di una pianta”, by Angelo Marotta. Paneikon and Med-Media for RAI 3 - Italian Public Broadcasting – Dvcam 1 x 26’