English biography: |
Paolo Sodi is Italy’s leading documentary filmmaker and a Sony Europe ambassador to the company’s CineAlta brand for cutting-edge technologies. In his early 30s, he has directed and filmed 9 short films and 3 feature films in the genres of natural history and people & nature, as well as a cornucopia of campaigns and commercials for leading brands and international production houses: American TV Network, Off The Fence, and WildAid amongst many others.
A regular at RAI, Italy’s national public broadcasting company, Paolo directed and filmed some of the most successful titles for the company’s esteemed GEO documentary program, such as Pietro the Hermit, Civita di Bagnoregio, and Gran Paradiso. He has filmed in countries as diverse as Papua New Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Cameroon. His latest feature, Blood Scales, on the people combating wildlife crime in Cameroon, won the Best Foreign Film award at its premiere at the Wildlife Conservation Film Festival in Fall 2021. Lately, he has directed Path of the Bear, hosted by Chris Morgan Wildlife, to further protection and conservation of the critically endangered Marsican bear. |