Simona Ercolani

Born in Rome in 1963, award-winning producer, author and director Simona Ercolani turned her passion for storytelling into a job, and her experience into a company, founding in 2010, Stand By Me – an audiovisual production company of which she is CEO and Creative Director. Her first big success came in 1998, when she created and directed the TV format Sfide (RAI 3), one of the longest-running RAI programmes, which ran until 2016. She has designed and produced over 40 original programme formats and written more than ten series, collaborating with all major broadcasters (RAI, Mediaset, La7, Sky, WB Discovery, Netflix and Prime Video). In 2021 Ercolani directed and produced for Netflix the Stories of a Generation - with Pope Francis, an international docuseries inspired by the book written by Pope Francis and edited by Antonio Spadaro, Sharing the Wisdom of Time. One of her latest productions is the mini-series Marconi, l’uomo che ha connesso il mondo (RAI1, 2024).