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Francesca Floris (Oristano, 1992) is a photographer and founder of the production company and animation studio Flora's Room. In 2010, Francesca was part of the Youth Jury at the Venice International Film Festival during its 67th edition. The jury consisted of 20/24 individuals selected from over 6000 students.

During high school, Francesca received training in writing and drawing from Italian cartoonist Stefano Enna (The Walt Disney Company, Mattel Co., Play Press, Soleil).

In 2011, she moved to London to attend Brunel University, where she met and began working with Kristijonas Dirse, with whom she created her first documentary, "Islands" (2014), independently distributed in Italy and Lithuania and premiered to a sold-out audience at Cinema Moderno in Sassari. The film became a small cult classic and was later revisited by various Sardinian artists such as BLUEM and Emanuele Prestileo in their careers.

In 2012, in London, she initiated the "Flora's Room" project as an art and craft program on YouTube, targeting children aged five to eleven. In September 2014, Floris moved to the United States to study Media Management at The New School in New York. She received the Dean's Merit scholarship. In April 2015, she was accepted with a merit scholarship at the USC School of Cinematic Arts in Los Angeles, the world's most competitive film university, with an acceptance rate of only 3% of applicants. Francesca enrolled for three months but later chose to relocate to Italy.

In December 2018, she graduated from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, working on popular Italian productions. Some of the short films she produced during her studies at the CSC competed at the International Critics' Week in Venice, Camerimage, and Cortinametraggio.

From 2017 to 2020, Francesca earned a Master's degree in Visual Anthropology from the University of Siena while working in the field of 3D animation and VFX (on productions such as "Mission: Impossible 7," Rainbow's "44 Cats," and HBO's series "My Brilliant Friend 2" and "The New Pope"). Always attracted to technical experimentation and the blending of reality and fantasy, Francesca honed her skills over the years as an experimental photographer at the CSC in Rome. She initiated projects like "Olympus 50," "Il Palco Bianco," and "L'ultimo amore di Las," promoted by magazines like "l'Espresso" and exhibited in Brera and other important Italian cultural centers.

Francesca's master's thesis at the University of Siena, based on the experiment "L'ultimo amore di Las," begins with a reflection on Roland Barthes' "Camera Lucida" and Franco Vaccari's "Photography and Technological Unconscious." An essay on the experiment, including the full story of "L'ultimo amore di Las," was published by Officina Libraria and presented at the Santa Teresa Mediateca (Accademia di Brera) in Milan in February 2019. "S'ammutadori" (Francesca's first animation project) is a short adaptation of a chapter from "L'ultimo amore di Las."

From March to December 2021, Francesca collaborated with 10D Film on the production teaser for "L'atleta," directed by Nicola Sammarco, a storyboard artist for popular Hollywood productions.

In June 2021, Flora's Room transformed from an art collective into a limited liability company. This was made possible by the success of the short film "S'ammutadori," which also went viral on the YouTube platform.

In September 2021, Francesca joined the Scanline VFX team.

In May 2022, Floris joined the Near-Real-Time pipeline experimentation on the film "Comandante" (SIGGRAPH 2022 and the opening film of the Venice Film Festival 2023), as a VFX producer, working closely with Kevin Tod Haug ("Fight Club") and David Stump (Technical Oscar for technological development).

In 2022, Floris held a series of lectures at prestigious international universities such as Northwestern University in Chicago, Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, by invitation, showcasing Flora's Room's work in bringing Sardinian culture to the public through cinema and animation, and at the University of Siena for her anthropological research related to both the audiovisual world and animation.

In April 2023, Floris joined Scanline, now acquired by Netflix, as Layout department manager in London. In January 2024, she was transferred to Montreal, Canada, and promoted to project manager of global pipeline training on high-level technical innovative pipelines, for the growth of projects on a global scale across the company's eight locations.

Currently, Flora's Room is collaborating with Bompiani, having acquired the rights to adapt Antonia Murgo's book "Miss Dicembre e il Clan di Luna" into an animated feature film, which won the Best Debut at the Strega Prize 2022. Floris has also been appointed as an executive on the animated feature film "Un viaggio a Teulada" by Nicola Contini, of which she has also acquired a portion of the shares.

Floris is active as a volunteer with the Italian NGO EMERGENCY and an LGBTQIA+ community activist in Italy.

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