Raffaele Monti (Eboli, Italy, February 15, 1981) is an Italian director, screenwriter, actor, independent producer and cinema and TV critic.
Graduated in TV and Cinema at the Roma Tre University with maximum grades, Raffaele Monti wrote, produced, directed and played his first short movie, On the life (Sulla vita), as his thesis in 2004.
[1] Just a 24-year-old, he won the prestigious Premio Internazionale Roberto Rossellini ex-aequo with the Chilean director Liu Marino,[2] readapting William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet in his screenplay of short film A bench, a meeting, the love (Una panchina, un incontro, l’amore).
[8] In 2012 he wrote, co-produced and directed with his colleague Gianpaolo Bucci the short movie Young Hunger (La fame giovane), premiered out of competition at the MED Film Festival of Rome.
His career as a critic became significant from the following year (and until 2010), when he started a stable collaboration with the website CinemAvvenire,[9] for whom he wrote about cinema, TV, music and literature.