MADO GIANNI

filmmaker/ screenwriter 

You can find me on substack or instagram, although you really want to find me on letterboxd.

(produced) short films

best friends (2026)   writer – director – editor – colorist 

meta (2023)   writer – director – producer – colorist 

Poster Best Friends FINAL poster
Film Poster in Black and White Red Dark & Serious Style
META is a dry satire about a relationship that starts and ends in the course of a year. It's a student film produced at Toronto Film School. Watch HERE.







BEST FRIENDS is a dark fantasy horror short film about two teenage girls who try to get to a party but never make it.

stones war

war thriller 

105 pages 

IP adaptation (commission)

 

Enlisted by the secret service to eliminate Albert Speer, a British officer with German heritage forms an unexpected romance with his contact in the resistance network. 

pitch deck

the pirates caper

action heist

106 pages 

IP adaptation (commission)

A London-based ship broker agrees to hijack an oil tanker which puts him in the spotlight of an international oil embargo against cocaine-exporting Portolina as it tries to crush a Communist rebellion.

pitch deck

holy boy

sports horror 

95 pages

written on spec

 

A track runner in recovery joins a special group of men to reclaim his title as the fastest man in the world for the 1996 Olympics.