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 Walter Bencini is owner and
president of Insekt Television Productions, a full-service
production company based in Tuscany. Since 1995, Bencini and
the Insekt staff have shot, edited and produced cultural and
historical programs presented on European networks and satellite
channels, including RAI, Tele +, RAI 3, Rete 4, Rai Sat Art,
Rai Sat Cinema, MTV Italia, AND KRONOS, RTL (Germany), and
TF1 (France).
Among Insekt’s most recent productions: Architects
of The 20th Century, a series profiling European architects
such as Willem de Kooning and Helmuth Hentrich (RAI 1); Gaudì’s
Barcellona (RAI 3); Degenerate Cinema(RAI SAT Cinema),
a candid portrait of Italy’s erotic film industry; and The
Celluloid Pencil(RAI SAT Cinema), a profile of illustrator
Silvano Campeggi, whose bold style graced some of Hollywood’s
most memorable film posters. In 2003, he served as editor on
the five-part series, The Church in the Third Millenium presented
on RAI International. Bencini directed, produced and edited a
series of government-sponsored programs on historical landmarks
in the Tuscan province of Arezzo, and has also shot and directed
commercials for European advertising agencies. His work as videographer
and editor is frequently seen on Gambero Rosso, Italy’s
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 Stefano Pratesi
Stefano Pratesi lives and works in Florence, Bologna, Milan and Rome for Filmaster , BRW & Company and other several and important production companies, such as RAI, MEDIASET, OrlandoFilm, MastroFIlm , Immagine e Cinema, Cecchi Gori Group, Carlo Production Romania, Bucharest, Insekt Italia, Fidia Film Rome ecc. He makes both documentaries, fiction, commercials films.
TV SERIES EPISODIES
Director in a RAI CINEMAFICTION end IMMAGINE E CINEMA Co production, a tv series Rome 2000, 6 episodes
Acting Coach Director for a 24 tv series episodes, by Mediaset Italia & Fidia Film, “Carabinieri 5” 2005 and for “Carabinieri 6” 26 episodies, 2006.
TV COMMERCIALS
Director
Kinder Ferrero (semaforo and Theatre), Perugina “Emotions”·Direction of Cafè Segafredo, Coloreria Italiana Tv commercial film, Bologna '99, Asti S. Orsola, 45’’ Tv commercial film, Florence 2002· “Mokador” 30’’ TV commercial film, Florence, 2004, “ Kingslac Milk” 30”/15”TV commercial film, Bucarest 2005, “Kingslac Cereals” 30”/15”TV commercial film, Bucarest 2005, “Asti Canti ” 15’’ TV commercial film, Italy 2007
Script writer (screenplays)
had wrote the screenplay "Beyond the river" full length film. The "Beyond the River" treatment has won the 1997 Napoli Write Film Festival and the Screenplay Award Solinas '99. The screenplay was sold by option in 2003. I had written for his direction “Innocence", screenplay who has won Napoli's screenwriter Festival. I had written the screenplay “Circensi” (Ciurcus Show People) a comedy, about five old Circus People living in a nursing home. I had written another comedy full length screenplay “La fabbrica dei Sogni” (The factory of Dreams).I had written the screenplay ” Love and Virtue,, with the collaboration of Mia Sperber. It is the story by Orlando Furioso, by Ludovico Ariosto, to be shoot by Raoul Ruize in 2007, principal cast J. Malkovich, Peter O’Toole and other stellar cast.related web site about “Love and Virtue” the next international film production
MOVIES
1st assistant director in a Sidney Pollack production in Florence and Siena '98, for "Up at the Villa", directed by Philip Haas: it was ambient in 1938 in Florence; cast Sean Penn, Ann Bancroft, Kristine Scott Thomas, James Fox, Jeremy Davis, Massimo Ghini, Lorenza Indovina, and, friendly, Mel Brooks. ·
1st assistant director in a RAI CINEMAFICTION production, a film by Alessandro Benvenuti, "Un Colpo al Cuore", Torino '99 cast: Ornella Muti, Alessandro Benvenuti, Gianna Giachetti, Ettore Belmondo, Cecilia Dazzi, Luigi Montini, Prospero Rechelmy, Stefano Davanzati, Anita Zagario. ·
1st assistant director in a full length film “Nemmeno in un sogno”, by RAI CINEMA and Tangram Film, Puglia, 2001 ·
1st assistant director for a pilot tv film for Mediatrade, “IL gruppo” Immagine e Cinema Production – RAI cinema , by Anna di Francisca, Ravenna 2001 ·
second unit director in Carabinieri 6 Tv fiction series.
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 Gia Marie Amella Gia is a writer, producer and director who divides her time between Chicago and Montevarchi, Tuscany. Her recent credits include the first international episode of The Weather Channel’s Storm Stories series, premiering later this year on National Geographic International, and a half-hour episode of HGTV’s New Spaces, including a stint as its interim managing producer.
Among her other credits, Child’s Play, Deadly Play, a one-hour episode of American Justice, A&E’s critically acclaimed crime series hosted by Bill Kurtis, Colorado Blizzard for TWC’s Storm Stories, and The German Americans, an episode of WLIW-TV’s award-winning American Heritage series seen on PBS nationwide, the second highest-grossing pledge program in the station’s history. Her award-winning Serving with Dignity, a candid profile of the world of waitresses, aired on the long-running PBS series We Do the Work. She served in various roles on programs airing on The History Channel (This Week In History), Fox Family Network (Real Scary Stories), The Learning Channel (Disaster Detectives), PBS affiliates KQED-San Francisco (Jacque Pepín's Cooking Techniques, Green Means, Hidden Cities of San Francisco) and KCSM-San Mateo (Hidden Sanctuary, A Higher Education), and briefly ventured into broadcast news at KGO-TV (ABC). Outside television, she has freelanced for advertising companies, radio stations, high-tech companies and educational media organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area.Gia holds an M.A. in Radio-Television from San Francisco State University, where she served for three years as a lecturer in the Broadcast & Electronic Communications Department, and a B.A. in Italian Literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is a 1998 Fulbright Fellow and is currently writing a book about popular culture and myth in contemporary Sicily. Her research on themes related to the Italian-American experience and Italian culture has been presented at conferences and film festivals in the U.S. and Europe.She most recently shot a pilot in Tuscany with Jame Beard Award-winning chef, teacher and TV personality Joanne Weir that follows Joanne on her popular culinary journeys to Italy and other regions of Europe.
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