Roberto F. Canuto

Regista, Montatore, Sceneggiatore, Produttore

13 aprile 1973 (53 anni)
Roberto F. Canuto, Spanish filmmaker, created and directed films and commercials and received awards including Best Film. MFA in Filmmaking, NYFA at Universal Studios, CA (USA). BA in Audiovisual Communication at Madrid’s “Complutense" University (Spain).Co-founder, director and writer at Almost Red Studio Chengdu (China)

Roberto F. Canuto is a filmmaker from Gijon (Asturias), Spain, with working experiences in Los Angeles (USA) and China, where he co-found Almost Red Production China. He is one of the first european directors that collaborates with a Chinese filmmaker producing films in China. He directed various short films and a feature film, screened in Film Festivals around the world and received awards, including best film.  Roberto has a Master in Fine Arts degree (MFA) in Filmmaking, obtained at the New York Film Academy (Universal Studios, Hollywood), where he directs different projects, including the award winning films “Toto Forever” (screened in over 30 international film festival) and the graduation feature film “Desire Street”, co-directed with Xu Xiaoxi, his usual collaborator (Best feature film in Asturian Film Festival 2014 and Special Mention Best Film in Mix Mexico International Film Festival). Previously he obtains his BA in Audiovisual Communication at Madrid’s Complutense University (Spain). During his study years he collaborates as a film critic in different media and he gets influenced by many classic directors after frequent sessions at the Spanish Cinematheque.  His project, “Ni Jing: Thou Shalt Not Steal” (awarded Best Short Film in Riverside Saginaw Int. Film Festival and Best Actress and Runner Up Best Short in Asturian Film festival 2014), was produced in China in 2013, where he lives working in fiction and commercials works at his company AR Productions, that aims to coproduce films between Asia, Europe and America. In 2015 directed "Floating Melon", that it was screened in over 40 international film festivals, with some awards, and in 2016 his first movie filmed in Spain and in Asturian language, "Advent", that was released at the 54th  Gijón International Film Festival. His latest project, "Sunken Plum", in in post-production, to be completed in 2017.

Famoso per

  • Toto Forever
    Toto Forever2010
  • Il Melone Amaro
    Il Melone Amaro2015
  • The Male Gaze: Sogni di Celluloide
    The Male Gaze: Sogni di Celluloide2021
  • Avvento
    Avvento2016
  • IUS del tempo
    IUS del tempo2025
  • Mei Mei
    Mei Mei2010
  • Sunken Plum
    Sunken Plum2017
  • Cerchi sull'acqua, sotto nuvole di cotone
    Cerchi sull'acqua, sotto nuvole di cotone2023
  • Ni Jing: Tu Non Dovrai Rubare
    Ni Jing: Tu Non Dovrai Rubare2013
  • New Queer Visions: Parental Guidance
    New Queer Visions: Parental Guidance2021

Filmografia

2025
2023
Water Circles Under Cotton Clouds · as Executive Producer
2013
2011
Desire Street · as Executive Producer
2010

2025
IUS of Time · as Sound Editor
2023
2017
Sunken Plum · as Sound Designer
2016
Advent · as Sound Designer
2013
Ni Jing: Thou Shalt Not Steal · as Cinematographer
2013
2011
Desire Street · as Cinematographer
2011
Desire Street · as Sound Editor
2010
Mei Mei · as Art Direction
2010
Mei Mei · as Cinematographer