Alessandro Gentile is an award winning cinematographer and filmmaker. A son of hard working immigrants from Argentina and Mexico, Gentile grew up in the San Gabriel Valley where he learned two languages and expanded his imagination for storytelling. In 2001, Gentile received his Bachelors Degree in Film Studies from the University of California at Santa Barbara.
Gentile then choose to polish his cinematography skills at the University of California at Los Angeles where he spent two years concentrating on lighting, composition, camera movement, and digital video capture. Post graduation, Gentile has shot numerous Independent and commercial productions in the States and abroad. Currently, Gentile works in the commercial world and has provided services to clients ranging from ‘BMW-Motorrad’ ‘Madison Square Garden Co.’, ‘Mazda-Bose’, ‘Acura’, ‘Microsoft’, ‘Hewlett Packard’, ‘Goodwill’, ‘Fender’ to ‘Kaiser Permanente’ and ‘LowRider Magazine’.
Gentile also provides his skills in the narrative cinematic form. In 2012 Gentile shot the television pilot for the Emmy Winning “Schitt’s Creek,” created by Eugene & Daniel Levy (featuring Catherine O’Hara and Chris Elliott), the short film, “Botes al Amanecer,” that screened at The Canne Film Festival and winner of 3 best short film awards, “Marisol” a multi-award winning short film and an Academy Award qualifier. The “Marisol” script has been inducted into the Academy’s Margaret Herrick Library. Gentile was acknowledged at the Brazil Int’l Independent Film Festival by receiving a Best Cinematography award for his work on the feature film “Trade” and has garnered two Telly Award’s for innovation in youth education.
Recently, Gentile has completed photography on the award winning feature film, “Mood Garden” festival circuit/distribution Oscillscope and "Trade" available on Amazon Prime. Past projects that have hit Netflix in 2018 are “2307: Winter’s Dream”, “The Doll Life-Season 2” and “The Lost City of Cecil B. Demille” also found on Amazon Prime.
Gentile has worked with musical artists such as The Recording Academy (Grammy’s), Alicia Keys, Bebe Rexha, Anthony Ramos, Paramore, Akon, Lukas Nelson, Don Was, Joe Bonamasa, and Michael Franti and Spearhead.
In 2020 Gentile directed his first short narrative film titled “Lodo”. Starring Laura Patalano (Hulu “This Fool”, Netflix-”Gentefied”) and Daniel Mora (“Coyote”, “Mayan’s M.C.”). The film has premiered at the Santa Barbara Int’l Film Festival as well as Dances With Films in Hollywood. “Lodo” has won 3 awards including the prestigious Tim Burton Visionary Award at Burbank Int’l Film Festival. Also in production is the boxing short film “Della” to be filmed in Los Angeles in 2022.
In 2014 Gentile co-founded the 501(c)3 non-profit organization ‘The Highland Park Independent Film Festival’ (www.hpifilmfest.com). Along with his partners they strive in bringing unique independent cinema to Northeast Los Angeles and educating youth in filmmaking.
Gentile currently resides in Los Angeles and on his off time enjoys spending time with his family in Burbank, California, hiking in the local mountains, playing tennis, surfing, skating and participating in an occasional game of Mario Cart