Andrea Gandolfo / Editor
Andrea Gandolfo
Editor / Sound designer
If you stop to observe the world, you will discover
that everything goes through an edition process
About Me
Biography
I discovered my passion for image in kindergarten. I was four years old, and I perfectly recreated the cover of a children’s book I had next to me. I was so happy and proud of my own work, that I showed it to my teacher. Unfortunately, she did not believe that such an accurate drawing could have been made by a child my age, and I was chastised for “stealing someone else’s drawings” and “lying”. At that moment, I understood how much I loved art, but also that my path would not be as smooth as I thought. I continued on drawing, regardless.
At 20, I had become an avid cinephile, and that deep passion for painting and music resulted in my first audiovisual experiments
on super8, that I back then dared to call “short films”. However, by seeing the results, I decided that I needed help if I really wanted to transform that passion into a life project. So, I enrolled the Scuola di Cinema, Televisione e Nuovi Media (Film, Television and
New Media School) in Milan, studying all day and working at night as a linear editor at a small TV producing company.
And finally, along with the new millennium, I graduated as a Film and TV Editor.
For some time, I worked as a freelancer at several TV production companies; but my dream and goal was the film. Fortune and my adamancy to reject steady jobs at television (a fact that made my parents pretty nervous) unexpectedly helped me. In January 2002,
I received a call from Maurizio Grillo, a Milanese editor. He urgently needed an assistant for a movie that already started to film. I said yes without a second thought and finally started working on my first film: “Fame Chimica” (Chemical Hunger). The film was selected at Venice International Film Festival. Soon after, I was called to work as assistant for another movie. I was now officially working at the film industry.
I led a professional double life along those years. On the one hand, I kept working as Editor Assistant at several films, with every time larger production companies (Colorado Film, Warner Bros, etc.). On the other hand, I started working directly as a Main Editor at short films, documentaries and commercials. At the same time, I was also returning to production, directing
a very personal full-length documentary film about my family and a horror short film.
Everything ran smoothly, and in 2006, my life took an unexpected turn, which radically changed all my projects. At the time, I was about to move to Rome to try my luck. But a friend of mine asked me to move to Paris for a couple months to edit a short film about an indigenous Paraguayan painter: “Ogwa”. There I met the authors of the film, Ricardo Álvarez and Silvana Nuovo, and it was the beginning of a long-lasting friendship and an intense professional collaboration, which the following year would result in the founding
of my first production company: Kinemultimedia Films.
That same year, Ricardo and Silvana traveled to Paraguay to settle in the country and film “Paraguay fue Noticia" (Paraguay in the Headlines), a documentary feature film about a tragic fire in a supermarket in Asunción. I arrived shortly after, with the idea of ​​staying only a few months to edit the film. But the months turned into years and now, after a decade and a half, I am still here,
in love with this beautiful country. Only in 2009 did I take a short break and return to Italy for a while, to work on an interesting film
by Cannes award-winning author: "Le Quattro Volte" (The Four Times), by Michelangelo Frammartino.
In Paraguay I participated in numerous projects, both cinematographic and commercial, editing feature films such as “Matar a un muerto” (Killing the Dead) by Hugo Gímenez, “Orsai” by Emiliano Gómez or “Felices los que lloran” (Happy those who cry) by Marcelo Torcida; documentaries such as “La tierra sin mal” (The Land of No Evil) and “Power and Impotence” by Anna Recalde Miranda, “Ore Ru”
by Armando Aquino or “Rua” by Daniela Candia; and collaborating with great producers and directors such as Gabriela Sabaté,
Seba Peña, Tana Schembori and Juan Carlos Maneglia, Tania Cattebeke, Marcelo Martinessi, among others.
In 2011 I once again directed, together with a writer friend, Sergio Colmán, a fictional short film: "Trinidad",
a genre film selected at numerous international festivals.
Parallel to my main professional occupation, in 2008 I also began my activity as a teacher at two institutions: Columbia University
of Paraguay (as part of the Cinematography major) and in the IPAC Institute. In addition, I sporadically give
publishing workshops and seminars.
I am a founding member of the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Paraguay and of the Circle of Editors
and Postproducers of Paraguay - CEPP, in which I currently also hold the position of vice-chairman.
In 2016 I founded, with an Argentine friend and partner, Javier Arroyo, the film and advertising production company: “Picante”, working as an editor and executive producer on dozens of advertisements and on various film projects. We are currently developing our first projects of our own, among them the short film “Veo, Veo” by Tania Cattebeke (which is having an intense tour at many festivals),
and the upcoming fiction feature film “La guerra de las mujeres” (Women's War).
Today, after more than 20 years of work, I am still deeply in love with what I do, and I feel that I have the enormous privilege of being able to get up every morning with a smile, thinking about the work that awaits me. And I only have one simple rule in my life:
“Never eat spaghetti with a spoon. Never!"
