Claudia Mollese, born in Lecce, is a filmmaker and researcher. She also graduated in International Economics from La Sapienza in Rome, she continued her studies in France. In Paris, she specialised first in socio-economic studies at IEDES (Institut d'études de développement économique et sociale) and then in visual anthropology at EHESS (Haute Ecole d'Etudes en Sciences Sociales). During her master's degree, she obtained the EHESS/CNRS Image documentary writing award for the documentary film Amara, which she made in the form of an ethnographic experience on the historic center of Lecce. In 2013, she

began a collaboration with the Film Flamme collective of filmmakers for an editing residency at Polygone étoilé. For five years she was in charge of the Ateliers Cinématographiques Film flamme (cinema workshops), where she experimented with forms of collective writing alongside other filmmakers and the young people living in la Joliette district in Marseille. Several short films at the border of reality and fiction were made.

At the same time, she works in the south of Italy, where she lives part of the year.

In recent years he has carried out cinema projects and new forms of narrative, taking care of the artistic direction in schools, art centers, associations, foundations.