Call Me By Your Name

In the summer of 1983, in the north of Italy, Elio Perlman, (Timothée Chalamet) a 17-year-old American spends his days in his family's 17th century villa lazily transcribing music and flirting with his friend Marzia (Esther Garrel). One day Oliver (Armie Hammer), a 24-year-old graduate student working on his doctorate arrives as the annual summer intern tasked with helping Elio's father (Michael Stuhlbarg), an eminent professor specializing in Greco-Roman culture. Soon, Elio and Oliver discover a summer that will alter their lives forever. CALL ME BY YOUR NAME, directed by Luca Guadagnino and written by James Ivory, is based on the novel by André Aciman.

Luca Guadagnino

Director/Producer

Luca Guadagnino is an award-winning director, screenwriter, producer, and artistic entrepreneur. In 2010, he came into international renown for his critically-acclaimed film I AM LOVE, starring frequent collaborator Tilda Swinton, which garnered an Academy Award nomination in Best Achievement in Costume Design as well as Golden Globe® and BAFTA award nominations for Best Foreign Language Film. He most recently directed A BIGGER SPLASH (2015) starring Swinton, Ralph Fiennes, Dakota Johnson, and Matthias Schoenaerts. The film premiered in competition at The Venice Film Festival and screened at the Busan International Film Festival and the London Film Festival.

Guadagnino made his feature film directorial debut at the 1999 Venice Film Festival with the world premiere of the English-language film, THE PROTAGONISTS (1999), which starred Swinton. His other features include MELISSA P. (2005), and the documentaries MUNDO CIVILIZADO (2002), CUOCO CONTADINO (2004), INCONSCIO ITALIANO (2011), and BERTOLUCCI ON BERTOLUCCI (co-directed by Walter Fasano, 2013). He also directed three documentaries in “The Love Factory” series: TILDA SWINTON: THE LOVE FACTORY (2002, short), ARTO LINDSAY PERDOA A BELEZA (2004, short), and PIPPO DELBONO—BISOGNA MORIRE (2008). Guadagnino’s films have premiered at prestigious film festivals all over the world, including Venice, Berlin, Toronto, Locarno, Busan, and Sundance.

Guadagnino’s frequent presence on the international film circuit led to several invitations to serve on juries for the Turin Film Festival (2003 & 2006); the Venice Film Festival, chaired by Quentin Tarantino (2010); the Beirut International Film Festival, where he presided as President of the jury (2011); and the Locarno Film Festival (2011).

Born in Palermo, Italy and raised in Ethiopia, where his father taught history and Italian, Guadagnino’s international outlook and insatiable appetite for creative expression were calibrated early. He graduated from Rome’s University La Sapienza with a degree in History and Critics of Cinema, and did his thesis on Jonathan Demme. He made his theater directing debut in 2006 with a production of Patrick Marber’s “Closer,” and his opera directing debut in 2011 with Verdi’s “Falstaff” at the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona, Italy. In 2012 Guadagnino founded the production company Frenesy, through which he produced Ferdinando Cito Filomarino’s feature ANTONIA., as well as the documentaries BELLUSCONE. A SICILIAN STORY, OMBRE DAL FANDO, and his own BERTOLUCCI ON BERTOLUCCI.

Guadagnino’s next film is a remake of Dario Argento’s cult classic horror film, SUSPIRIA, reuniting him with Tilda Swinton and Dakota Johnson. The release is planned for 2018.

James Ivory

Screenwriter/Producer

James Ivory is a celebrated American writer/director who made 24 feature films over his 44-year partnership with the late Ismail Merchant, through their famed Merchant Ivory Productions. They are best known for a trio of English films, A ROOM WITH A VIEW, HOWARDS END, and THE REMAINS OF THE DAY, which between them earned twenty-five Academy Award® nominations, including three for Best Picture and Best Director.

Ivory marks his seventh produced screenplay with CALL ME BY YOUR NAME, following five films with two-time Oscar® winner Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (SHAKESPEARE WALLAH, THE GURU, BOMBAY TALKIE, A SOLDIER’S DAUGHTER NEVER CRIES, and THE DIVORCE); and one with Kit Hesketh-Harvey (MAURICE).

His work has taken him to France for six feature films, to China for THE WHITE COUNTESS (2004), based on an original screenplay by Kazuo Ishiguro, and to Argentina for THE CITY OF YOUR FINAL DESTINATION (2006), based on the novel by Peter Cameron.

Ivory began his filmmaking career in India with Merchant and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, his long-time screenwriter, in 1962. There the trio made the classic SHAKESPEARE WALLAH and HEAT AND DUST, based on Jhabvala’s Booker Prize-winning novel, Heat and Dust. Some of his other films include: THE HOUSEHOLDER, SAVAGES, THE WILD PARTY, AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A PRINCESS, ROSELAND, THE EUROPEANS, JANE AUSTEN IN MANHATTAN, QUARTET, THE BOSTONIANS, SLAVES OF NEW YORK, MR. & MRS. BRIDGE, JEFFERSON IN PARIS, SURVIVING PICASSO, and THE GOLDEN BOWL.

In 1995, Ivory received the D.W. Griffith Award from the Directors Guild of America, their highest lifetime achievement prize.

André Aciman

Original Novel

André Aciman as born in Alexandria, Egypt and is an American memoirist, essayist, novelist, and scholar of seventeenth-century literature. He has written four novels: Call Me by Your Name (2007, Lambda Literary Award for Men’s Fiction), Eight White Nights (2010), Harvard Square (2013), and Enigma Variations (2017).

Aciman also wrote Out of Egypt (1995, Whiting Award winner), his memoir of his childhood as a Jew growing up in post-colonial Egypt, and two collections of essays, False Papers: Essays in Exile and Memory and Alibis: Essays on Elsewhere. He also edited Letters of Transit and The Proust Project, wrote the text for Jean-Michel Berts’ photobook The Lights of New York, and prefaced Monsieur Proust, The Light of New York, Condé Nast Traveler’s Room With a View, Stefan Zweig’s Journey to the Past, and Alexandrian Summer. His books and essays have been translated in many languages.

Aciman grew up in a multilingual and multinational family and attended English-language schools, first in Alexandria and later, after his family moved to Italy in 1965, in Rome. In 1968, Aciman's family moved again, this time to New York City, where he graduated in 1973 from Lehman College. Aciman received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Harvard University and, after teaching at Princeton University and Bard College, is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at The Graduate Center, CUNY, and the director of both The Center for the Humanities and The Writers’ Institute. He has also taught creative writing at New York University, Cooper Union, and Yeshiva University. In 2009, Aciman was also Visiting Distinguished Writer at Wesleyan University. Aciman is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship as well as a fellowship from The New York Public Library’s Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers.

A contributor to The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New Republic, The New York Review of Books, Aciman has also appeared in several volumes of Best American Essays. He is currently working on a novel about his father and a collection of essays.

Peter Spears

Producer

Peter Spears is an American writer, director, producer, and actor. He was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and attended Northwestern University before moving to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career.

Spears has appeared in numerous television shows and films, notably as “Danny Benjamin,” Diane Keaton’s son-in-law, in Nancy Meyers’ SOMETHING’S GOTTA GIVE. His TV credits include “ER,” and “Friends,” among many others.

In 2006, Spears directed his first feature film, CARELESS, starring Colin Hanks and Tony Shalhoub. That same year saw the world premiere, in Chicago, of Spears’ musical comedy, “Asphalt Beach,” of which he co-authored the book with Tom Smith. The music and lyrics for “Asphalt Beach” were written by Andrew Lippa, a Tony nominee for “The Addams Family.” A London production is in the works, as is a film version of the musical.

Spears also co-wrote the short film that marked his directorial debut, “Ernest and Bertram.” It tells the sad and ultimately violent tale of the doomed relationship between two closeted muppets and premiered to critical acclaim at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival where Entertainment Weekly named it “Best Of The Festival.” (It can be viewed on YouTube).

In 1992, Spears developed “Nightmare Café” for NBC with Wes Craven. He has written several other movies and television pilots and was the executive producer for the “surf noir” series for HBO, “John From Cincinnati” which he developed with David Milch (“Deadwood” and “NYPD Blue”) and aired in 2007.

Currently, Spears is at work with journalist Jody Becker on an animated documentary film about the life of gay Holocaust hero, Fredy Hirsch.

Emilie Georges

Producer

Emilie Georges founded Memento Films Distribution and Production with Alexandre Mallet-Guy in 2003. Previously she worked at Flach Pyramide and Pan Européenne, where she was in charge of international co-productions.

Georges launched Memento Films International at the Cannes Film Festival in 2005 with Hiner Saleem’s KILOMETER ZERO, which was presented in competition. The company, of which she is managing director, is set up to accompany arthouse films by internationally respected directors through production, international sales, and French distribution, according to the needs of each project. Among the films and directors Memento Films International has worked with include: Laurent Cantet’s THE CLASS (Golden Palm, Cannes 2008); Aditya Assarat’s WONDERFUL TOWN (Tiger Awards, Rotterdam 2008; New Current Awards, Pusan 2007); Jia Zhang-ke’s STILL LIFE (Golden Lion, Venice 2006); Asghar Farhadi’s A SEPARATION (2012 Academy Award® for Best Foreign Language Film); Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s WINTER SLEEP (Golden Palm, Cannes 2014); and Wash Westmoreland & Richard Glatzer’s STILL ALICE (2015 Academy Award® for Best Actress for Julianne Moore), Joachim Trier’s LOUDER THAN BOMBS (2015), and upcoming, Cate Shortland’s BERLIN SYNDROME and Nicolas Pesce’s PIERCING.

She also produces through her own production company La Cinéfacture, which has developed such ambitious European projects as Hiner Saleem’s KILOMETRE ZERO and Gyorgy Palfi’s TAXIDERMIA. Georges also chairs Paradise City, a production company mainly dedicated to prestige English language genre projects, including Jim Mickle’s WE ARE WHAT WE ARE and COLD IN JULY, and Jeremy Saulnier’s BLUE RUIN.

Georges has been co-president of ADEF, the association of French sales agents, since 2009, and has been an elected member of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of Unifrance since 2008.

Rodrigo Teixieira

Producer

Rodrigo Teixieira is a film producer, CEO and founder of RT Features, an international production company based in São Paulo, Brazil. His Portuguese language films include Heitor Dhalia’s O CHEIRO DO RALO (Sundance 2007), Karim Aïnouz’s O ABISMO PRATEADO (Cannes, 2011), José Henrique Fonseca’s HELENO (Toronto, 2011), and Marco Dutra’s QUANDO EU ERA VIVO (Rome, 2014), among others.

For the last five years, Teixeira has also focused on developing, producing and financing international projects, notably Noah Baumbach’s FRANCES HA, starring Greta Gerwig, Mickey Sumner and Adam Driver, which played numerous film festivals, including Telluride, Toronto, New York and Berlin in 2012 and 2013. Teixeira has also produced Kelly Reichardt’s NIGHT MOVES, starring Dakota Fanning, Jesse Eisenberg and Peter Sarsgaard (Venice, 2013); and Ira Sachs’ LOVE IS STRANGE, starring Alfred Molina, John Lithgow and Marisa Tomei (Sundance and Berlin, 2014)

In 2015, films produced by Teixeira were presented at the Sundance Film Festival (Noah Baumbach’s MISTRESS AMERICA and Robert Eggers’ THE WITCH, which won the Dramatic Directing Award) and Cannes Film Festivals (Gaspar Noé’s LOVE). In 2016, he produced INDIGNATION, adapted from Philip Roth’s novel by James Schamus, (Sundance, Berlin and Rio de Janeiro, 2016) and LITTLE MEN directed by Ira Sachs (Sundance, Berlin and Rio de Janeiro, 2016). This year Teixeira’s production of Geremy Jasper’s PATTI CAKE$ was well received upon its presentation at Sundance. Its US release is planned for 2017.

Marco Morabito

Producer

Marco Morabito was the producer of Luca Guadagnino’s I AM LOVE (nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Golden Globes® and for an Academy Award® for Best Costume Design) and executive producer of Guadagnino’s A BIGGER SPLASH, starring Tilda Swinton, Ralph Fiennes and Dakota Johnson. He will next produce Guadagnino’s upcoming SUSPIRIA, with Dakota Johnson, Tilda Swinton, and Chloë Grace Moretz.

Morabito also produced, through his company, MA.MO., Guadagnino’s documentaries TILDA SWINTON: THE LOVE FACTORY; LOTUS; CUOCO CONTADINO, presented at the Venice Film Festival; and ARTO LINDSAY PERDOA A BELEZA, presented at the Torino Film Festival.

Born in Rome and a horror fanatic, Morabito co-founded the production company First Sun in 2006. He also produced Edoardo Gabbriellini’s THE LANDLORDS, which premiered in 2012 at the Locarno Film Festival in Competition and ANTONIA. by Ferdinando Cito Filomarino, presented in competition at the 50th Karlovy Vary Film Festival where it received the Special Jury Mention.

Howard Rosenman

Producer

Howard Rosenman is an acclaimed producer, actor, and teacher. His over thirty productions have won two Peabody Awards, an Academy Award®, and top honors at the Sundance, Berlin and Cannes Film Festivals.

His credits range from such features as FATHER OF THE BRIDE, BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, THE FAMILY MAN, THE MAIN EVENT, A STRANGER AMONG US, YOU KILL ME, and SPARKLE to documentaries like THE CELLULOID CLOSET, COMMON THREADS: STORIES FROM THE QUILT (Academy Award for Best Documentary, Peabody Award), and the Emmy-nominated BRAVE MISS WORLD. His TV work also includes David Milch’s HBO series “John from Cincinnati.”

Upcoming film projects for Rosenman include the comedy MATTER OF SIZE, to be directed by Jon Turteltaub; a film on Anita Bryant, to be directed by Darren Star; and SHEPHERD: A TALE OF A DOG IN WORLD WAR II, to be written and directed by Lynn Roth. For television, Rosenman is preparing “The Six Day War,” based on Michael Oren’s book, to be directed by Sam Raimi; a TV film retelling of “A Christmas Carol” called “Ebeneza,” starring Taraji P. Henson; and a mini-series “The Black Calhouns,” the story of Lena Horne’s family from reconstruction to the civil rights era, based on the book by her daughter, Gail Lumet Buckley. Rosenman is also preparing a Broadway musical, “Anne Rice’s ‘Voce,’” with music by Lance Horne.

Rosenman made his acting debut in Gus Van Sant’s MILK playing “David Goodstein” and has since acted in five more movies. Rosenman has been an adjunct professor at USC, and recently, at The Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema in Brooklyn. He has also taught at UCLA, Yale, Columbia, NYU, Brandeis, and AFI. Born in Brooklyn, NY and raised on Long Island, Rosenman graduated Magna Cum Laude from Brooklyn College with a degree in European Literature.

Sayombhu Mukdeeprom

Director of Photography

Sayombhu Mukdeeprom began his collaboration with Luca Guadagnino on Ferdinando Cito Filomarino’s feature ANTONIA., which Guadagnino produced. Since completing CALL ME BY YOUR NAME, Mukdeeprom served as director of photography on Guadagnino’s SUSPIRIA.

He is best known for his work with Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul on such films as BLISSFULLY YOURS (Un Certain Regard Award, Cannes 2002), SYNDROMES AND A CENTURY (2007), and UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES (Golden Palm, Cannes 2010, Best Cinematographer, 2010 Dubai International Film Festival), A LETTER TO UNCLE BOONMEE (short), and on Miguel Gomes’ ARABIAN NIGHTS 2015 trilogy of films retelling Scheherezade’s stories with modern Portugal as a backdrop: VOLUME 1: THE RESTLESS ONE, VOLUME 2 – THE DESOLATE ONE, and VOLUME 3 – THE ENCHANTED ONE.

Born in 1970, Mukdeeprom graduated from the Communication Arts of Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand, majoring in motion picture and still photography. He continued his studies at the Russian National Film Institute (VGIK) in Moscow, before returning to Thailand in 2000 to begin his collaboration with Apichatpong Weerasethakul.

His other films shot in Thailand include IRON LADIES 2, SAYEW, MIDNIGHT MY LOVE, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BITTER/SWEET (with James Brolin), SAWASDEE BANGKOK HELLGATE (with William Hurt and Cary Elwes), and LAST SUMMER. Since shooting ANTONIA for Ferdinando Cito Filomarino, he has shot two short films for the director, “Await” and “Closing In.”

Walter Fasano

Editor

Walter Fasano began his friendship and artistic collaboration with Luca Guadagnino in 1996 with the director’s debut film THE PROTAGONISTS, starring Tilda Swinton, and edited all his following film works: MUNDO CIVILIZADO, MELISSA P., I AM LOVE (which he co-wrote), BERTOLUCCI ON BERTOLUCCI (which he co-directed), and A BIGGER SPLASH. He is currently editing Guadagnino’s SUSPIRIA.

Born in 1970 in Southern Italy, Fasano is also a self-taught musician and a professional radio deejay. He has a Degree in History of Cinema and studied Editing at the National Film School in Roma. He has edited more than forty feature films and documentaries working with, among others, Park Chan-Wook, Dario Argento, Maria Sole Tognazzi, Ferdinando Cito Filomarino and Ferzan Ozpetek. He often collaborates as a screenwriter (Argento’s MOTHER OF TEARS) and composer on his projects.

Samuel Deshors

Production Designer

Samuel Deshors is originally from Caen, Normandy, where he began his study of Applied Arts. He moved to Paris to continue his training at the ENSAAMA Olivier de Serres School of Art and Design. He then attended La Femis Film School in Paris, where he majored in Set Design. After graduating from La Femis in 2003, he began collaboration with director Christophe Honoré on DANS PARIS, a relationship that continued with LOVE SONGS, “The Beautiful Person” (TV), MAKING PLANS FOR LENA, MAN AT BATH, BELOVED, and METAMORPHOSES. Deshors has also teamed with director Philippe Claudel on I’VE LOVED YOU SO LONG, TOUS LES SOLEILS, BEFORE THE WINTER CHILL, and A CHILDHOOD.

Deshors’ other film credits include THE AGE OF MAN, PAULINE DÉTECTIVE, Alice Winocour’s DISORDER (aka MARYLAND), JULY-AUGUST, and upcoming, LA MONNAIE DE LEUR PIÈCE.

Giulia Piersanti

Costume Designer

Giulia Piersanti has been working for the past twenty years as a freelance fashion designer, consulting for some of the world’s best renowned luxury brands.

Born in Rome, Piersanti grew up in Paris and Los Angeles, and studied at Parsons School of Design in New York City. After her longtime friendship and aesthetic affinity with Luca Guadagnino, the director invited her to make her debut as a film costume designer on A BIGGER SPLASH in 2015, a successful partnership that continued with CALL ME BY YOUR NAME and, upcoming, SUSPIRIA.

Daniel Pemberton

Music

Daniel Pemberton an Ivor Novello winning and multi-Golden Globe and BAFTA nominated composer known for embracing a wide range of musical mediums, from electronic to orchestral. His unconventional and innovative approaching to scoring has captured the attention of not only some of the most legendary directors in the industry but also filmgoers and critics alike and has established him as one of the most versatile and exciting voices working in film today.

He has composed the scores to such major films as Danny Boyle’s STEVE JOBS (2015), Ridley Scott’s THE COUNSELOR (2013), Aaron Sorkin’s MOLLYS GAME (2017), Guy Ritchie’s THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. (2015) and KING ARTHUR: LEGEND OF THE SWORD (2017), Nicole Garcia’s FROM THE LAND OF THE MOON (2016), and Stephen Gaghan’s GOLD (2016).

After more than a decade establishing himself as one of the most inventive and experimental voices in British television, Pemberton moved into the world of film with the period supernatural thriller The Awakening (2011). His hybrid choral, orchestral and electronic score caught the ear of Ridley Scott who hired the composer to score his feature THE COUNSELOR (2013). He collaborated again with Scott on the director’s first foray into television, “The Vatican” in 2014. He was named “Discovery Of The Year” at the World Soundtrack Awards in 2014 and nominated as “Film Composer Of The Year” in 2016.

Sufjan Stevens

Original Songs

Sufjan Stevens s a singer-songwriter currently living in New York City. A preoccupation with epic concepts has motivated two state records (“Michigan” and “Illinois”), a collection of sacred and biblical songs (“Seven Swans”), an electronic album for the animals of the Chinese zodiac (“Enjoy Your Rabbit”), two Christmas box sets (“Songs for Christmas, Vols. 1-5” and “Silver & Gold, Vols. 6-10”), and a programmatic tone poem for the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (“The BQE”). In 2010, Sufjan released an expansive EP (“All Delighted People”) and the full length “The Age of Adz,” a collection of songs partly inspired by the outsiderartist Royal Robertson. His most recent release is “Carrie & Lowell,” released in March of 2015.

Three of Stevens’ songs are on the CALL ME BY YOUR NAME soundtrack. Two new ones, “Mystery of Love” and “Visions of Gideon,” were written and performed especially for the film, and a previous song, “Futile Devices,” was rearranged.

Born in Detroit and raised in Northern Michigan, Sufjan attended Hope College, in Holland, Michigan, and the masters program for writers at the New School for Social Research.