Martina Cocco works as a director of photography and camera operator for both fiction and documentary projects. Her roots are a blend of Sweden, where she was born, and Italy, where she grew up. From a young age, she had a strong inclination towards graphic arts and embraced the camera as her tool. She has always loved capturing the faces of family, friends, and the places she has visited. After high school, she graduated in set design from the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, where she realized that what interests her most is the atmosphere that can be created through lighting and angles of observation. At the same time as her studies at the Academy, she began working in the field of contemporary art.
Her passion for photography and cinema led her to the Centro Sperimentale in Rome. She had the privilege of attending the Photography course under the guidance of Maestro Giuseppe Rotunno, an iconic figure in Italian cinema, who passed on his passion and dedication to the craft to his students. She graduated in 2011 and immediately started working, alternating between two roles: director of photography for documentaries and short films, and assistant camera operator for prominent directors of photography such as Vladan Radovic and Daniele Ciprì.
Her career as a DP and operator has grown over the years with directors of her generation. She formed a partnership with Elisa Amoruso, whom she met while working on her first documentary, Fuoristrada. This collaboration continued for nearly a decade on various other projects, the most notable of which is The Good Mothers, which won the Golden Bear for Best Series at the 2023 Berlin Film Festival. Her debut as a DP in the world of fiction cinema was also with Elisa Amoruso, in 2018, for the film Maledetta Primavera. This was followed by Time Is Up, Game of Love, and Anni da cane. She is currently in post-production on three very different films: Eleonora Danco’s second feature; Incanto by Pierpaolo Paganelli; and Il ragazzo dai pantaloni rosa by Margherita Ferri.
