Marco Cacioppo is an Italian filmmaker and screenwriter graduated in cinema at IULM University. He was born in Milano in 1981. After a career in journalism and film criticism, and the early experiences as assistant director and script supervisor on the set set of films like DO YOU LIKE HITCHCOCK? (2005, Dario Argento), NOI DUE (2007, Enzo Papetti), SIGNORINAEFFE (2008, Wilma Labate) and SORELLE MAI (2010, Marco Bellocchio), he moves to filmmaking and screenwriting. He directed commercials, like the HANKY PANKY spot for FERNET BRANCA, video clips and documentaries for Italian musicians like BABAMAN, NEGRITA and CRISTIANO DE ANDRE' under UNIVERSAL MUSIC ITALY. In 2009 he meets Danish film director NICOLAS WINDING REFN and Danish producer LENE BØRGLUM who decides to bet on him. For their film company SPACE ROCKET NATION he starts an intense collaboration culminating in the directing of his first short film TENDER IS THE FLESH and the conceiving of his first feature film, AT THE BREAK OF DAWN.