Gianluca Jodice (born 4 December 1973) is an Italian filmmaker best known for the feature films The Bad Poet and The Flood.
[1] After directing a series of award-winning short films throughout the late 1990s and 2000s, Jodice directed the 2014 documentary Searching for the Great Beauty, about the Paolo Sorrentino film The Great Beauty.
[1] In 2015, Jodice and Giuseppe Gagliardi co-directed the ten-episode Sky Italia series 1992.
[2] Jodice's 2020 feature film debut, The Bad Poet, dramatized the relationship between Gabriele D'Annunzio and Benito Mussolini through the eyes of Giovanni Comini, a young federal secretary in Fascist Italy.
[3] For The Bad Poet, Jodice was nominated in the Best New Director category at the 2021 Nastro d'Argento and 2022 David di Donatello award ceremonies.