Gabriele was born in Rome and started making movies with Video8 Camera
when he was sixteen. He was a trainee as an assistant director of
filmmakers Antonio Manetti and
Marco Manetti and worked on many music videos
of famous Italian artists (Alex Britti, Gigi D'Alessio, Max Pezzali). At the
same time he was a film critic and he graduated with a degree thesis on the
evolution of Italian horror cinema.
During these years he directed the short movies
Braccati (2001) produced by Stars Film,
L'armadio (2002) produced by the
well-know Italian cinematographer
Luca Bigazzi, and
Mummie (2003) produced by Nauta Film. Then
Gabriele directed his first feature film
Il bosco fuori (2006) which was
shot in only 17 days with a budget of under 50k euros. The film was a
super-splatter gore fest produced by NeroFilm in association with
Manetti bros and with the Italian wizard of gore
Sergio Stivaletti who provided all the
special effects and special make-up.
Il bosco fuori (2006) was released
by Minerva Pictures and was acclaimed in international film festivals as
Montreal World Film Festival, Philadelphia Film Festival, London Sci-Fi Film Festival, won a
prize at Buenos Aires Rojo Sangre Film Festival for best lead actor (to
Geno Diana) and a jury prize at
Fantaspoa for "best bloodbath".
With the 'Italian Chainsaw' title the movie became the Top Ten seller in
Japan and was also released in Thailandia, Malesia, Indonesia,
Singapore, Russia and Spain. Then
Il bosco fuori (2006) was
hand-picked by director Sam Raimi through
Lionsgate and Ghost House Underground and nationwide released on DVD in
the North America as 'The Last House in the
Woods'. The movie was hailed as one of the best DVDs of 2008 by Bloody
Disgusting.
Gabriele wrote & directed his second feature film
Ubaldo Terzani Horror Show (2010)
which was produced by Minerva Pictures with the support of Film Commission Torino Piemonte. The movie was broadcast on the Italian SKY network and released in the USA by
RaroVideo.
