Federica Belletti

Federica Belletti


Full Bio
Federica Belletti is a writer/producer based in New York. Born and raised in a shoemaker's lab on the Italian Adriatic coast, she is passionate about stories that spotlight issues of social justice and class, that empower women and those whose voices are unheard.

Belletti has produced and co-produced narrative shorts that have showcased on Air Canada and over 30 film festivals worldwide including Montclair Film Festival, SXSW, Hamptons, Palm Springs, Melbourne Queer Film Festival, Berlin Feminist Film Week, Ashland, Corto Dorico, and Festival del Cinema Europeo.

She was awarded the Arthur Krim Memorial Award for Excellence in Producing and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association Fellowship. In 2019 she was a Tribeca Film Institute All Access Fellow, a finalist of the Sundance Producing Lab, and a finalist of the Marcie Bloom Sony Fellowship.

Belletti has interned at Maven Pictures, GameChanger Films and the Austin Film Festival worked as a Location Manager with directors Adam Leon, Deborah Kampmeier and Kirsten Johnson was Assistant to Producers Anna Gerb and Neal Dodson at CounterNarrative Films and Associate Producer on upcoming documentary series about legendary driver Tazio Nuvolari by Duncan Entertainment and documentary series by Film Manufactures Inc.

She holds a Summa Cum Laude B. A. in Communication Media and Advertising from IULM University in Milan, and an MFA degree in Creative Producing from Columbia University in the City of New York.

Professional Credits
Tape, feature
Dick Johnson is Dead, feature
Untitled Adam Leon Movie, feature
Last Summer With Uncle Ira, short
Triple Frontier, feature
Ayaan, short
Refuge, short
Nice Talking To You, short
Fake, short
How To Breathe Out of Water, short
Kiko, short
Nowhere, short
Industry Awards
Arthur Krim Memorial Award for Excellence in Producing
Diversity in Film, Refuge, at the L.A. Diversity Film Festival
National Board of Review, Student Award , Refuge
Kodak Silver Award for Excellence in Filmmaking, Refuge
Refinery29 Best Short Award, Refuge, at Columbia University Film Festival
Tribeca All Access Fellow, 2019
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