Gianluca Minucci was born on July 24, 1987 in Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy. He is a director and writer, known for The Shower (2010), The Cut (2013) and Chimeras (2015). He lives in Los Angeles.
He studied film history at University La Sapienza in Rome, his thesis being on Robert Altman's cinema. Minucci went on to achieve his master's degree in Film Analysis, with a monographic essay on Paul Thomas Anderson's film There Will Be Blood.
He is a member of Mad Dogs Film.