GIOVANNI FERRARI
147 Sullivan Street, 3D New York, NY 10012 917-446-6390 www.gferrarifilm.com
MOVIE PRODUCER
SELECTED FILMS 2015 2015 2015 2014 2014 2014 2014 2013 2013 2013 2013
Smell, based upon a short of Kurt Vonnegut (Short) (producer) (pre-production) Trilobites, based upon a short of B. D’J. Pancake (Short) (producer) (pre-production) Big (Short) (producer) Kinder der Wende (Documentary) (producer) Noam&Louise (Short) (producer) Canary (Short) (producer) Side Effects May Include: Time Travel (Short) (co-producer) God Is the Greatest (Short) (production manager) To Shop (Short) (director) (producer) Broken Badge (Short) (location manager) (exec. Producer Micheal Hausman- Brokeback Mountain) Date to the Cinema (Short) (director) (producer)
AWARDS 2014 Sound&Design Development Award, Columbia University Film Festival 2014 Katharina Otto Bernstein Development Award, Columbia University Film Festival 2014 Honorable Mention, Pitch Contest, Columbia University Film Festival
Smell Trilobites Ex Famous People Club
FESTIVALS 2014 World Premiere, Short Film Corner, Cannes Film Festival, Cannes, France 2013 World Premiere, HOF International Film Festival, Hof, Germany List of all festivals available on request
WORK EXPERIENCE
LANGUAGES
2005-2012 Mondadori Publishing Company Manager of the Contract Department 2004-2005 Embassy of Italy, Laos and Cambodia Cultural Attaché’s Assistant
Date to the Cinema God Is the Greatest
Milan, Italy Bangkok, Thailand
Italian: Native Speaker English: Fluent Portuguese: Fluent Spanish: Intermediate
EDUCATION
SKILLS
2012-2015 Columbia University New York, USA MFA – Creative Producing Candidate 2006-2010 Università degli Studi of Milan Milan, Italy Bachelor Degree in Philosophy 2002-2003 UFRGS, Universidade Federal Rio Grande do Sul Porto Alegre, Brazil Exchange Student 1998-2004 Università Bocconi Milan, Italy Master’s Degree in Business Administration
MS Office, Apple/PC Movie Magic Scheduling and Budgeting Indiegogo/KickStarter Squarespace CeltX/Final Draft Social Networking Avid Media Composer
OTHER EXPERIENCES
REFERENCES
2001-2008 CO.DAR.DI. Collettivo D’Arte Digitale Visual DJ 2007-2009 Esternal Publishing Company (Sport Press) Freelance Journalist 1996-2002 A.S. Rugby Brescia and Leonessa 1928 Semi-professional rugby player (Italian First Division)
Milan, Italy Brescia, Italy Brescia, Italy
Available on request