Amedeo Greco, filmmaker
01 · Studio
I film people who have devoted years to an idea, a discipline, an institution.
I work where a press release flattens too much and a keynote is over too soon.
- Jeffrey SachsColumbia University
- Marek ReichmanAston Martin
- Tim FlanneryClimate Council Australia
- Fulco PratesiFounder of WWF Italy
- Luigi BoitaniA leading voice on large carnivores
- Bruno BarbieriChef, 7 Michelin stars
- Richard LorettoAmazon EU Sustainability
- Janine ThiesBMW Circular Economy
02 · Films
Contexts
I work where what matters is access, time and the discipline not to oversimplify.
Research centres, summits, foundations, independent brands.
03 · Method
Preparation matters as much as the filming.
Every interview begins with a conversation, before any camera is involved. I want to understand how a subject thinks before I put them in front of one. Without that stage, a documentary stays a string of questions and answers. With it, it begins to become a portrait.
Filming is the most visible part of the process, but not the longest. The setup adapts to the context, never the other way round. Preparation, direction and post-production take up more time than the shoot itself. The camera records; it does not interview.
A forty-minute interview becomes an eight-minute film, and deciding which thirty-two minutes to leave out is the most important choice of all. It is an editorial one: which parts of a person are worth conveying, and which are not. In the end, it is the gaze that decides.