Edoardo Ponti (Geneva, 1973), son of Sophia Loren and producer Carlo Ponti, is a director, screenwriter and producer, occasionally also an actor. In 2002 he made his debut in the cinema with Extraneous Hearts, continuing his career with Coming & Going and the award-winning short films Away We Stay, The Night Shift the Stars Do It, from the homonymous story by Erri De Luca, and Human Voice, by Jean Cocteau, presented in Venice. His most recent film, The Life Ahead, based on Romain Gary's novel of the same name and starring Sophia Loren and Renato Carpentieri, was one of Netflix's biggest hits in 2020 and was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film. In the second half of the 90s, Edoardo Ponti was the personal assistant of Michelangelo Antonioni, who had just been awarded the Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement, for the realization of two projects that were later faded: Just to Be Together, strongly desired also by Jack Nicholson, and the science fiction Destination: Verna, which would have seen Sophia Loren protagonist.