Dario Di Mella
- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Producer
Dario Di Mella is an Italian cinematographer and camera operator.
He graduated in Political Science in Bari in 2006. In 2005 he enrolled at the Academy of Cinema Ragazzi-Enziteto, where he studied subjects such as direction, editing, film photography, speech, screenplay. Since 2006 he has been working as a director of photography and camera operator for film productions. He makes numerous cinematographic and commercial products (feature films, short films, video clips, documentaries and commercials) many of which receive national and international awards.
Since 2013 he has been teaching film photography in various training institutes.
Over the years he has collaborated with Italian directors such as Alessandro Piva, Pippo Mezzapesa, Luca Medici aka Checco Zalone, Paola Randi, Paolo Sassanelli, Beppe Cino, Igor Borghi, and with foreign directors working as a camera operator in "Padre Pio" by Abele Ferrara with Shia LaBeouf, as cinematographer with Chris Gero, director 9 times Emmy Award, for the documentary The Sound of us, always as cinematographer with Gustavo Cotta, famous among others of the TV series Paso Adelante and Kally's Mashup, in Nickelodeon USA TV series "Club 57", with Stephan Freiss, in his debut "Alla vita", with Riccardo Scamarcio and Lou de Laâge, with Vivianne Rise Jundi Costa for her Detective do predio Azul 2, and with Alexandre Valenti for the Maestro, a documentary on Francesco Lotoro as camera operator.