Biography

Federica Belletti is a film writer and producer based in the US, originally from Italy. She worked at Maven Pictures, Gamechanger Films, and in production on "Tape", "Italian Studies" (Hulu), and "Dick Johnson Is Dead" (Netflix). She joined CounterNarrative Films, the company co-founded by Anna Gerb, Neal Dodson and JC Chandor where she worked on "Triple Frontier" (Netflix), and later Film Manufacturers Inc founded by Katharina Otto-Bernstein. Belletti has produced ten award-winning narrative shorts that played at 150+ festivals worldwide, including "Refuge", featured in The New Yorker Magazine; "Nice Talking To You", a SXSW premiere; and "Ayaan" which was longlisted for an Academy Award®, won 30 awards worldwide, including an Australian Directors Guild Award and Best International Short at Show Me Shorts Festival (NZ). Belletti is an alumna of the Giffoni Film Festival, the Tribeca Film Institute, and the BAFTA Los Angeles Newcomers' Program. She holds an MFA in Creative Producing from Columbia University ('18), where she was the recipient of the HFPA Fellowship and the Arthur Krim Memorial Award For Excellence in Producing.