About Us
Gotandafilm is an ongoing collaboration between award winning filmmakers Alessandro Cassigoli and Dalia Castel.
We started working together full time in 2004 when we produced, filmed and edited our award winning documentary Good Times. So far, Good Times has participated in more than 28 international film festivals and won 12 prizes, amongst them Dok Leipzig, DocumentaMadrid and the Grand Jury Award for Best Short Documentary at Full Frame Festival in the United States.
In 2005 we obtained the Nipkow Fellowship in Berlin, which allowed us to develop our project, Almost Paradise. Ever since receiving the fellowship, we have been based in Berlin.
In 2006 we made a short documentary called Relatively Free which won the International Documentary Challenge, a timed filmmaking competition.
Since 2007 we have started to direct and edit documentaries for the program 360º GEO, produced by Medienkontor and the “arte”.
Alessandro Cassigoli (Florence, Italy 1976)
After high school, Alessandro moved to Rome at the age of 19 to attend film school. From 1998 to 2005 he worked as an assistant director on many Italian films and popular TV series. Since 2005 he has been working as a full time director and spending his time commuting between Rome and Berlin. Find out more about Alessandro’s work: http://www.alessandrocassigoli.com/
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Dalia Castel (Jerusalem, Israel 1975)
Dalia grew up in Jerusalem and moved to Tel Aviv to study film editing. She was nominated for Best Editor in the Israeli Oscar Ceremony for her work on the award winning film Urban Feel and was the youngest editor ever to receive this nomination. Between 1999 and 2005 she lived in Rome, Italy, where she kept on working as an editor. She edits on AVID and Final Cut Pro. Find out more about Dalia’s work: http://www.daliacastel.com/