Eros Puglielli (Rome, May 17, 1973) is an Italian director.
Still in his teens, he made a number of works on video that highlight a dynamic and extremely articulate style in the service of tales with grotesque tones centered on themes and stories that belong to the world of youth.
In 1993 he shot on video the feature film Dorme, in competition at Bellaria in 1995, transferred to 35mm film in 2000 and released in theaters in May of the same year. At the age of 21 he entered the directing course at the Centro sperimentale di cinematografia;[2] there he directed some short films: Assunta, I topi (a co-director), Effetto placebo, presented at the Pesaro and Sulmona festivals, winner of the Capalbio Festival.
In the same period he shoots the short film Il pranzo onirico, in competition at the 1996 Venice Film Festival where he wins the UCCA and FEDIC awards, wins the Siena Festival and the Turin Festival as best short film of the year, gets a Special Mention at the Festival international du court métrage de Clermont-Ferrand, and is nominated for the David di Donatello award and the video clip Shiva by Saturnino, produced by Jovanotti.
In 1997, he made the medium-length film Lorenzo 1997 - L'albero, a mix of musical backstage and fiction for the release of Jovanotti's album of the same name.
The same year he made I racconti di Baldassarre, a 35mm short film, winner of the Annecy Film Festival in 1998.
In 1998 at the Adriatic Film Festival, directed by Marco Bellocchio, a monograph was dedicated to him presenting some of his work. In 2000 he made a short film in collaboration with Legambiente for Telepiù titled Teledominio.
In August 2001 his first film Tutta la conoscenza del mondo was released in theaters, presented at the Forum section of the 2001 Berlin Film Festival, winner of the N.U.C.T. award and later presented at the Lincoln Center in New York.
In 2004 he participated in the Midnight Section of the 61st Venice International Film Festival with his second film, the thriller Occhi di cristallo, based on the novel L'impagliatore by Luca Di Fulvio. At the same time he made a science fiction film AD Project, intended for the home video market. The film was made under The Coproducers system, which he devised with Marco Bonini and others in 2005, according to which all participants receive no compensation but hold a share of the profits.
In 2006 he made the TV series 48 Hours, a detective story of 12 episodes of 50 minutes each. During this same period he works as a lecturer at the Rome Film School where he teaches acting. In the following year he participates in the documentary Gli invisibili - Esordi nel cinema italiano 2000-2006.
In 2008 he makes Zodiaco, a four-part 100-minute miniseries, a parapsychological thriller produced by Casanova Entertainment for Rai 2.
From 2009 he works for Ares film on air on Canale 5 until 2015, directing the TV films So che ritornerai and Caldo criminale, starring Sabrina Ferilli and Gabriel Garko. The TV series Viso d'angelo, Baciamo le mani - Palermo New York 1958, starring Virna Lisi and Sabrina Ferilli, and Il bello delle donne... a few years later.
In 2018 he returned to cinema with the film Nevermind premiered, in the "Panorama Italia" section, at the Rome Film Festival.
In 2019 he directed the film Copperman, with Luca Argentero.
In 2022 he directed Gli idoli delle donne, with Lillo & Greg and later directed the Amazon Prime series Sono Lillo.
He directs two more series in 2023: Alfonso, for Amazon Prime, and from Dec. 21, 2023, on Prime Video with the two-season comedy series Gigolò per caso, where he directs Christian De Sica and Pietro Sermonti.
In December 2024 he releases the Christmas film Cortina Express, written and directed by Puglielli himself and starring De Sica himself, with Lillo and Isabella Ferrari.