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Born in 1994 in Mendrisio (Switzerland). In 1998, after being exposed to high doses of film and TV, he falls in love with the cinematic language. Being an idiom intuitive to understand, but quite hard to speak, in 2016 he decides to study Film to improve his fluency, getting in 2021 the Bachelor of Arts in Film at the Zurich University of Arts.
His shorts have been screened at important film festivals across the world including Tallinn Black Nights, Fantasia Film Festival, Tampere Film Festival, and Seattle International Film Festival.

In 2021 he has been chosen to represent Switzerland at the 13th Tashkent International Film Festival. During the event, he shot the short film Chicken Dinner, which won the Best Screenplay award at the festival.

In 2022 his short film Danzamatta won the Bronze Egg Award at the 15th Küstendorf Film and Music Festival organized by Emir Kusturica. The same year, his graduation short Moles won the Best Comedy Award at LA Shorts and the NextGen Award at the Nashville Film Festival.

Since 2022 he is a member of the ARF/FDS - Swiss Association of Directors and Screenwriters and the Italian Director’s Guild Air3

He’s currently working, together with Jan-David Bolt, on Into the Light, a short metadocumentary produced by Frama Film SA and the Swiss Television (RSI).


Contact
Based in Zurich and Lugano, Switzerland
vvkt[at]vanjatognola.com
+41 77 434 70 87
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Contact
Based in Zurich and Lugano, Switzerland

vvkt[at]vanjatognola.com
+41 77 434 70 87
Instagram