At the age of seventeen, Daniele Nannuzzi began working on the set of Luigi Comencini‘s Incompreso alongside his father Armando Nannuzzi famous Author of Photography.
After a stint as assistant cameraman and camera operator, he made his debut as Author of Photography working alongside Franco Zeffirelli, Carlo Lizzani, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Serghey Bondarciuck, Tinto Brass, Enzo Monteleone, Tonino Cervi, brothers Antonio and Andrea Frazzi, and many, many others.
With Enzo Monteleone‘s 2002 El Alamein, he won the David di Donatello award and the Golden Globe.
After years of filmmaking at great levels he realizes his dream of lighting a theatrical performance, thus begins a new path that will lead him to work as a light designer in the largest and most important Italian and European theaters.
Very important was his collaboration with Boris Eifman the great Russian choreographer who wanted him to light and film three of his most important ballets at the Marijnsky Theater in St. Petersburg: Onegin, Anna Karenina and Rodin.
Parallel to his activities as Director of Photography and Light Designer, he is also teaching at the Zeffirelli Foundation with the Theatre Lighting Workshop.
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