Filippo Conz earned his BA at the Universita Cattolica in Milan with a thesis on chase sequences in Hitchcock movies. In 2000 he worked for the art magazine RISK Arte Oggi as Managing Editor and was Assistant Curator for several exhibitions held at distinguished international venues including the Tate Modern in London, Museo della Permanente and the Triennale in Milan, Palacio Foz in Lisbon and Mucsarnok in Budapest.
In 2002 he wrote for Teatro OutOff in Milan the script for Strani Anelli (Strange Loops), for which he was awarded the Sefemm Prize by Milan’s Mayor’s Office. Strange Loops was nominated Best Feature at the ToHorror Film Festival 2003, awarded the Gold Remi Award at the Houston International Film Festival and screened at the Venice Film Festival, Filmmaker Festival in Milan, New York Film and Video Festival. His following short, Eukiah, based on a piece by Lanford Wilson, screened at the Los Angeles International Short Film Festival and Queens International Film Festival.
Recently, he directed Decomposition d’un Meurtre, a short film funded by the French Ministry of Culture and The French Embassy in New York; he was a finalist in the 2007 Book Video Award with his trailer of Runemarks by Joanne Harris (Chocolat, Blackberry Wine, Five Quarters of the Orange) and produced My Way, a documentary for La Presse Video on the moving story of race car driver A. Zanardi.
He lives and works in New York pursuing a MFA in Directing at Columbia University’s Graduate School of the Arts, where he was awarded a Merit Fellowship and The Hollywood Foreign Press Award. He has just opened his own production company, Zbabam Productions, aimed at the production of feature films, including his first feature lenght script – Buried Waters.
Filippo Conz was awarded a Production grant at Columbia in 2007 for Tymbals