Luca Tornatore started working twenty years ago as cam-operator in the ENG troupe. The advent of miniDV and low-cost non-linear editing allowed him to be among the first video makers, and in 2000 he shot his first short film. In 2006 he was one of the first filmmakers to move to high definition.
In 2008 he made the first direct-to-video feature, Hikikomori. Inspired by the well-known pathology of Japanese boys, it has a very sharp style, with silences, fixed shots and jump cuts, with the hand-held camera bursting suddenly; the protagonist is desaturated and often shot in half-darkness.
Again in 2008 he was among the first in Italy to shift to 4k technology, and he worked also as a colorist. In 2014 he produced his first feature film, St@lker. The effort to explore alternatives forms to traditional narratives is pushed even further than the previous film: the photography changes continuously with the evolution of the characters, the editing alternates long, fixed frames with rapid cuts, with an extensive use of graphics.
In 2015 he was associate producer of “Lands of Saints” (Terra dei Santi), co-produced by Rai Cinema. In 2021 he produced the feature film “Upside Down” with Rai Cinema and the back of MIC, Apulia, Lazio and Aosta Valley, inspired by a true story of a guy with Down syndrome who fights three times as a martial artist.