Oli Arnoldi is a writer and filmmaker from London with Japanese, Irish, and Italian roots.

His journalism has appeared in GQ, The Telegraph, The Tibet Post, VICE News, and on HBO.

As a ghostwriter, editor, and book consultant, his work includes the memoirs of an artist and US presidential portraitist, an American mountaineer, and a #MeToo whistleblower.

His short fiction is published in The Stinging Fly, and he is working on his debut novel.

As a filmmaker, his work includes THE TOWERS, a documentary short film about a little person basketball team from New York, which won the Tribeca Film Institute / ESPN Future Filmmaker Prize. It was distributed by Great Big Story and has received nearly five million views online. He is in post-production on a follow-up documentary, LAST SUPPERS. He directed ONE BAR MORE, a narrative short film that won Raindance Film Festival’s Open Shorts Night. He has co-written and co-directed two other narrative short films, WAVES and VIRTUE, and is developing his debut narrative feature film, HAIL DAISY. The film’s screenplay is an Academy Nicholl Fellowship Quarter-Finalist, a finalist for Francis Ford Coppola’s American Zoetrope Screenplay Competition, and a winner of the Golden Script Competition.

For his work, he has received fellowships from the Hemera Foundation and the Pulitzer Prizes.

Contact: arnoldi.oliver@gmail.com