Ruggero Pini is a documentary filmmaker and creative strategist, based between Bologna and Tenerife.

For ten years he filmed the dance work of his sister, the researcher Sarah Pini. Their film Abisso (2018) won the CHASS Australia Prize. His series Impressionario // Lives of Artists followed artists in their spaces, with episodes produced by Galleria Continua and S.M.A.K. Ghent and released by WIRED Italia. It won Best Web Documentary Series at DocUnder30. He has worked with the artist Sabrina Mezzaqui for over ten years, most recently on a video for her exhibition at GAM Torino, for Galleria Massimo Minini. His music videos premiered on Rolling Stone and redbull.com.

In 2013 he co-founded Piier, a production company in Bologna. For ten editions he made the films of Vestrock festival in the Netherlands. In Shanghai he was DOP and art director at Flatmind, for Ferrero and PepsiCo. He then worked as video producer at EY Greater China, with projects for Roche and EY’s global Blockchain team. He was producer and showrunner of the Italian edition of How to Survive (Underknown, Webby Award). As creative director for chef Alessandra Spisni, he built the team and the format behind 200M+ organic views.

In 2025 he founded Food Storytelling. Its first film, Bolognese, was selected at food film festivals in New York and Rome. It is the subject of a peer-reviewed article in Gastronomy and Tourism. He teaches at IAL Emilia-Romagna.

ruggero@ruggeropini.com
@rogerpines