Martin Rattini (born 1975 in Bolzano, Southtyrol)graduated from the „Kolleg für Fotografie“ in Vienna in 1998 and achieved a diploma as cinematographer from ZeLIG Film-school in Bolzano in 2001. In the same year he co-founded HELIOS, an agency for audiovisual communication and has since then been working as photographer and filmmaker shooting documentaries with an emphsis on social and environmental issues all around the globe.
He was participant at RIFF- (Island 2009) and Berlinale Talent Campus (2008) and also at the training initiative ESODOC (2008). From the early beginning Martin is part of FAS (the Film Association of Southtyrol) and was board member from 2007 until 2014.
In 2012, together with his three longstanding partners he founded the production company Helios Sustainable Films, which is producing and coproducing documentaries and feature films or the international market.
In 2018 Martin won a golden LOLA at The German Film Award for Best Producer in the category Children Movies and is a member of the German and European Film Academy.
