
Jonas Carpignano is an Italian-American filmmaker based in Rome and Brooklyn. His short films have played at SXSW, New Directors/New Films, and Venice, where his film
A Chjàna won the Controcampo Award for best short. The film also earned him a Nastro D’Argento Special Mention from the Association of Italian Film Critics (SNGCI). Carpignano completed the Sundance Writing and Directing Labs for the feature-length version of A Chjàna, and was named one of Filmmaker Magazine‘s 25 New Faces of Independent Film. He is also the recipient of the Mahindra Award at Sundance. His feature,
Mediterannea, based on the short,
A Chjàna, was selected for Cannes in the International Critics Week section and garnered three Independent Spirit Awards nominations. He is an MFA candidate at NYU Tisch, where he won the Martin Scorsese Young Filmmakers Award, which led to his feature
A Ciambra earning a spot in Director’s Fortnight—and getting acquired by IFC Sundance Selects.