Biography

Thomas Torelli is a Rome based director and producer of films and documentaries with particular emphasis on those related to social themes. After a long experience as an editor and executive producer, Thomas founded Xtend in 2001, a company operating in the field of production and post-production for film and television, and in 2003 Telemaco. He has collaborated with different roles at some of the most interesting titles of the independent Italian cinema of recent years, such CRAJ by Davide Marengo awarded the Lino Miccichè Award for the Best Opera Prima at the Venice Film Festival 2005 (co-editor); Dall’altra parte della Luna, the first Italian “rockumentary”, story of the group Negramaro, presented at the Venice Film Festival 2007 (director of post-production). In 2006 he served as executive producer and co-author on Franco Fracassi and Francesco Trento’s feature documentary ZERO: An Investigation into 9/11 where revealing presentations by Nobel Prize winner Dario Fo and American literary icon Gore Vidal explore the sequence of “contradictions, gaps, and omissions” in the official version of events surrounding the attacks. ZERO was presented at the International Film Festival of Rome 2007 and was winner of the Audience Award at the Festival Internacional de Cine Documental de la Ciudad de México in 2008.