Giosue Petrone

Giosuè Petrone hails from Atena Lucana, a small town in the south of Italy. At the age of 21, he had the opportunity to use a digital camera for the first time and he immediately became interested in filmmaking. Giosue moved to Florence where he earned a bachelors degree in multimedia from Libera accademia di belle arti di Firenze. While getting his degree, Giosue worked as a commercial director on advertising campaigns for Saks Fifth Avenue and Nike, but it failed to satisfy his desire to tell meaningful stories through the medium of film. After directing a few narrative short films, Giosue was captured by a story he heard in Rwanda and decided to pursue filmmaking full time. Unforgivable is his directorial documentary debut.