The Producers

Sacha Beverini was born in La Spezia in 1982. Following his passion for cinema, he moved to Milan in 2008. Since then he has worked as film editor on documentaries and commercials. In 2012 he met Krishna Agazzi and Filippo Gastaldi, who gave him the oppurtunity to join the project 'Naga the Eternal Yogi' as editor and producer.

Krishna has been working in the camera department in the motion picture and advertising industries since 1998 and as a cameraman and director of photography since 2011. 'Naga', the first documentary that Krishna has directed, is a fusion of his passions: traveling, anthropology and documentary filmmaking.

After developing a keen interest in audio-visual art during his studies at University of Bologna, Filippo Gastaldi set up and became president of an audio-visual production group, 'WORP Cinematographic.' In 1998, attended his first Kumbha Mela Festival in India, where he met a Guru of the Naga-Dashnamis Sampradaya who initiated him into the world’s oldest monastic order, changing his life forever. In 2012 he reunited with Krishna, a dear friend from film school, resulting in the making of his first feature film as co-director and producer, ‘Naga’.

Making The Film

This movie was born around the fire lit in the temple that Filippo, the co-director, built in a garden
in Milan. We hadn’t seen each other for more than 15 years; that is, not since high school. He then told me about India, yoga and the teachings that his Guru had passed on to him. I realized that yoga had very little to do with physical exercise but much more with the
cult of fire, renunciation, nudity and ashes. We left two months later to tell this story.