Nicola Bernasconi

Producer

Website
www.roughcat.ch

Born in 1973 in Bern, Switzerland, he grew up in Lugano. Humanistic & Cinema studies at the University of Lausanne; Bachelor degree in Communication Sciences at the USI (Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano); studies in Film Production in Milan, Italy.
He started working in the cinema and television industry in 1996 as a production assistant, then as a unit and production manager in Italy & Switzerland. From 2006-12 he served as a jr. producer at Ventura film. Since 2013 he teaches at the CISA film school in Locarno.
In 2014 he establishes the production company ROUGH CAT, aiming at developing and producing both documentaries and fiction films by young and mainly local authors, keeping an eye on European cinema and international co-productions.
Main workshops attended: New Horizons Studio (Int. Film Festival Wrocklaw 2013) / FOCAL Audience & Marketing Strategies 2020 / EURODOC 22.

Filmography
(a selection)

Producer

2025
Steel Love by Gianluca Monnier
2025
Allegra by Giorgia Wurth
2025
L'ultima cena by Manuel Perrone
2025
Il canto del respiro by Simona Canonica
2025
Il ragazzo della Drina by Zijad Ibrahimovic
2024
Care Givers by Ben Donateo
2024
Il cassetto segreto by Costanza Quatriglio
2023
Sconosciuti puri by Valentina Cicogna, Mattia Colombo
2023
La tentazione di esistere by Fabio Pellegrinelli
2022
Somewhere on Earth by Fabrizio Rosso
2020
Alors recherche by Vittorio Castellano, Giovanni Jannoni
2020
Anche stanotte le mucche danzeranno sul tetto by Aldo Gugolz
2019
Tutto l'oro che c'è by Andrea Caccia
2019
I Segreti del Mestiere by Andreas Maciocci
2019
VIS VIVA by Amos Pellegrinelli
2016
The Other Half Of The Sky – Stories Of Chinese Businesswomen by Patrik Soergel
2015
Stella ciao by Vito Robbiani
2013
17 anni by Filippo Demarchi
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