Roberto Minervini is an Italian-born film director, who lives and works in the U.S. His latest film, What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire?, is in select theaters through KimStim from August 16. After completing a Master’s Degree in Media Studies at the New School in New York City in 2004, he moved to the Philippines to teach Documentary Filmmaking at the university level. In 2007, he moved to Texas, where he directed three feature films, The Passage, Low Tide and Stop the Pounding Heart, a Texas Trilogy that played at renowned film festivals including Cannes, Venice, Toronto and Rotterdam, among others. In 2014, Stop the Pounding Heart won the David di Donatello Award (Italian Academy Award) for Best Documentary. The Other Side (aka Louisiana), his fourth film, premiered at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, competing in the Un Certain Regard Section. (Photo by Felix Sanchez.)
