Olga Lamontanara

Producer

After a degree in Arts & Cultural Management at Bocconi University, Milan, and an experience at BAM, New York, she served as Director’s Assistant and Head of Special Projects at Scuola Holden, Turin. In 2008, she was part of the team launching TorinoFilmLab, where she worked first as Project Manager, then as Head of Communication until 2018; there she also designed tailor-made workshops for partners such as the Directors' Fortnight in Cannes, Open Doors of the Locarno Film Festival, or BrLab (Brazil). In her career she has managed festivals and cultural events of various nature and size, besides being active in film promotion. Since 2019, she works with Cinédokké in Lugano as producer, and 8horses in Zurich as a development & international coproduction consultant. In 2020, she was appointed Head of Coproduction Forum for the short film initiative European Short Pitch and became a producer at Amka Films in Lugano.

Filmography
(a selection)

Producer

2023
Anxiety by Slawomir Fabicki
2023
Body Odyssey by Grazia Tricarico
2023
La Chimera by Alice Rohrwacher
2023
Invelle by Simone Massi
2023
Alter Ego by Erik Bernasconi, Robert Ralston Jr.
2022
Until Branches Bend by Sophie Jarvis