COSIMO SANTORO

Distributor and Producer – The Open Reel

 

Biography

Born in 1973, he is an international distributor and a producer, former festival programmer and film critic. In 2010, after collaborating with several film festivals and being the programming director of the Turin LGBT Film Festival, he became the head of acquisition of the Italian distribution company Atlantide Entertainment and of its two VOD platforms Queer Frame and Indie Frame.

 

In 2012, he collaborated as an acquisitions consultant with the US distribution company TLA Releasing. He has then founded, in 2013, the international sales agency The Open Reel, promoting feature films, shorts and documentaries of all kinds of genre, but with a particular attention to the new expressions of the contemporary and young cinema. 

 

 

The Open Reel has also become a Distributor company in the Italian territory in 2014, through its VOD platform www.theopenreel.it, and a production company in 2017.