Franco LOLLI GOMEZ

Franco Lolli Franco Lolli was born in 1983 in Bogotá, Colombia. He studied cinema in France, first at the University Paul Valery and Sorbonne Nouvelle then at La Femis (direction department). His diploma film Como todo el mundo, was selected in many festivals including San Sebastian, Guadalajara and Los Angeles. The film won 26 prizes, among them the Jury Prize in Clermont-Ferrand, Angers, Bruxelles, R.I.H.L Poitiers and Expresión en Corto. Franco went to Cambodia with director Rithy Panh to direct the documentary Mémoire et Images, une expérience cambodgienne. He lives both in Paris and Bogota where he teaches cinema at the university and is also a film critic. Franco is developing his first feature film that will be produced by Lazennec, Gente de bien, the story of a reunion with an unemployed father and his nine year old son, their meeting with a middle-class family and their relation with their old dog.