Pietre Film was formally founded in 2020 from the decade-long collaboration between Elsi Perino and Ilaria Ciavattini. Pietre Film addresses issues such as sexuality, identity and gender, stereotypes related to orientation, and the multiple expressions of interpersonal relationships through documentaries, music videos, and video installations. Un uomo deve essere forte (Italy 2019) is the first documentary written and co-directed by Perino and Ciavattini, co-produced by
With Malfè Film and Caravan Film, premiering at the 60th Festival dei Popoli in Florence, the documentary deals with the FT transition of a young man from the chronically ill province of Brescia.
In 2021, Pietre Film produced Venti Arcobaleno, a documentary celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the LGBT Service of the Municipality of Turin.