Maria Giménez Cavallo

Biography

Maria Giménez Cavallo (BA, Columbia, 2014) is an independent filmmaker and film scholar whose work—including several short films and a feature—engages deeply with the natural world. Based internationally, she worked with Abdellatif Kechiche as artistic collaborator, assistant director, casting director, and editor for the Mektoub, My Love trilogy in Paris. She then moved to Rome to collaborate with Pietro Marcello, Alice Rohrwacher, and Francesco Munzi on the documentary Futura and later served as artistic director for Marcello’s L’Envol. She has since opened her own production company Anima Films with Jo Ann Cavallo in order to produce her own work, including a few short films which depict rural traditions: Jeanne, petite bergère, La Grande Quercia, and La Visita. Her debut feature film Anime galleggianti, a reimagining of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, had its premiere at the Alice nella città Festival in Rome in October 2024. (ani​mafilms​.net)

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Cavallo - Entrepreneurial Vision and Consumer Sovereignty in Enrico Piaggio – Un sogno italiano
Maria Giménez Cavallo and Jo Ann Cavallo
Entrepreneurial Vision and Consumer Sovereignty in Enrico Piaggio – Un sogno italiano

Maria and Jo Ann Cavallo explore the challenges, complexities, and triumph of entrepreneurship in an Italian film about the invention of the legendary Vespa.

The Market, Ethics, and Self-Determination in Amir Naderi’s The Runner
Maria Giménez Cavallo and Jo Ann Cavallo
The Market, Ethics, and Self-​Determination in Amir Naderi’s The Runner

Maria and Jo Ann Cavallo review Amir Naderi’s film The Runner, which explores themes of self-​resilience, innovation, and voluntary exchange through the story of eleven-​year-​old Iranian orphan Amiro.