Casting Directors

Casting a production in Italy draws on one of cinema's deepest acting traditions. It runs from De Sica and Rossellini's neorealist street casting, through the Visconti–Fellini auteur era, to today's roster built around Paolo Sorrentino, Matteo Garrone, Alice Rohrwacher, Marco Bellocchio, Stefano Sollima, and Gabriele Mainetti.

Our casting directors include UCDA-recognized pros such as Beatrice Kruger, Sorrentino's go-to on The Great Beauty, Youth, The Young Pope, and The Hand of God. The roster also covers Annamaria Sambucco, Massimo Appolloni, Aldo Lampredi, and the Trastevere and Centro Storico casting houses that supply principal and supporting talent to Cattleya, Wildside, Indigo Film, Palomar, Lux Vide, and Pepito Produzioni shoots.

Principal pools draw on graduates of the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, the Silvio d'Amico National Academy, Rome's Accademia Nazionale d'Arte Drammatica, and the major drama schools in Milan and Naples. Talent agencies such as Movie People, ATA, Notorious Pictures, Personality, and Locuzioni sit in our submission network for both Italian theatrical features and David di Donatello-tier prestige series made for RAI Fiction, Sky Italia, Netflix, and Disney+ Italian originals. Each session is recorded for remote review.

Sessions run at pro casting rooms across Rome, Milan, Naples, Florence, Bologna, and Palermo. We add self-tape pipelines, live video auditions for remote directors, and full recording of in-person reads for callback review.

Bilingual Italian–English casting sits at the core of the practice. We shortlist actors with logged global credits and real regional accents, from Roman to Sicilian to Milanese to Neapolitan to Venetian and Tuscan. The search also reaches French, German, and Spanish-fluent actors for co-productions built under Italy's treaty network. The 1949 agreement with France stays active, alongside deals with the UK, Australia, China, Japan, and the Ibermedia members covering Spain, Portugal, and Latin America.

Background and crowd-scene casting flows through our AD network. Specialty extras — period-trained dancers, equestrians, sword-and-sandal stunt performers, hand-to-hand combat trained Roman-era supporting cast, and Risorgimento and fascist-era supporting cast — come through the long-standing rosters that supply Cinecittà, the Apulia Film Commission, the Sicily Film Commission, and the Sardegna Film Commission. We build Italian Tax Credit and ENPALS, SIAE, and CCNL Cinema Audiovisivo compliance into our contracting, so principal-cast spend qualifies cleanly under the 40% rebates through to David di Donatello, Nastri d'Argento, and Venice Film Festival delivery. Festival travel and press coverage are set up through the production legal team.