As an Actor and filmmaker, please introduce yourself and let us know why you became an actor and a filmmaker?

My name is Marcus Marcelli. I am a young actor and director. Since I was a child I loved to play other characters and do imitations,

to give them life has been my passion ever since and at the same time the challenge that most stimulated me.

There was no precise moment in my life in which I decided to become an actor, it grew with me: I knew I was an actor since

I went up for the first time on stage at the age of three. It was therefore natural for me both to attend acting courses and to participate

in all those shows that gave me the opportunity to test myself in playing the most diverse roles. After several acting courses in Italy and England, my training phase culminated in the USA with a degree from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and subsequently from

the New York Film Academy. I think it is essential for a director to have an acting background. Being on the other side of the camera

gives you the sensitivity a director needs to understand how to work with his characters. It gives you a deeper understanding of the chemistry

and interaction during scenes. I think acting, filmmaking and screenwriting are three arts that are deeply connected and it’s impossible

to do one without understanding the others. Writing gave me the spark to create other worlds, acting made me want to live in these worlds,

and Filmmaking eventually made me want to share this worlds with everybody. I wanted to tell my own stories. When I was acting as an actor,

I felt the need to know more about filmmaking and so I started asking around my friends who were directors. Whenever I was on set

between filming, I would go up and ask the crew questions: how the lights work, how the camera focuses. And they were all really generous

with great advice and tips. I was fortunate to have this type of in field education and I am still educating myself on the subject.

But that's what's so compelling about technique: there is no right or wrong, you have to look at the story and see

what is the best technical approach for it. Why become a director? Because, in addition to interpreting interesting human personalities

as an actor, I feel the urge to also tell many choral stories, which I can tell the public only with that overall approach that a director can give.

Give some more information about the films you have made so far, about your background and experience?

I come from a family of history buffs, so I grew up in this type of environment. It was normal for my father or grandparents to entertain me for hours with stories of all kinds, from those of ancient times to the very recent ones. Of course this has awakened my creative imagination since childhood, which translated into the best games organized with my brother, my cousins ​​and my friends, when as children we fought in the woods and we built castles made of old tents and broom handles. I couldn't be more grateful to my family for giving me such a fun childhood, made of history and legends often told outdoors, where abandoned vans would become dragons in the woods and tree-houses your kingdoms.

Then growing up during my studies I was fascinated by the complexity of historical events, by the difficulty of their reconstruction and their

interpretation. But to me History class was always a lot of fun! And this has even more stimulated my desire to measure myself with the complexity of rendering historical events for the public. As a director, I realized that I had acquired a treasure trove of stories

that populated my childhood, most of which are little known or even completely unknown to the general public, to whom I felt the need,

the urgency to tell them. Sometimes I wonder how many blockbusters can be drawn from these stories that almost nobody has ever heard of,

I’m not talking about small facts but real stories that surprisingly nobody has ever heard of before,

On the other hand, in recent years, due to the need for training, I have also grappled with almost all genres of entertainment

(romantic comedies, thrillers, westerns, film noir, musicals, etc.), learning a lot and having even more fun. I certainly intend

to devote myself to all these genres in my near future.