Experience

Logistics Marketing Agency

• United Kingdom
• Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain and Storage
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Acquisitions and Programming - Cinema and Fiction

  • Mar 2013 - Present

  Acquisition Selection and Programming / Fiction Development and Production - Cinema and tv series for Rai 2. Acquisition Selection and Programming / Fiction Development and Production - Cinema and tv series for Rai 2.



Rai Cinema

• Italy
• Movies, Videos, and Sound
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Acquisitions

  • Oct 2010 - Mar 2013

  Product scouting and evaluation for Rai free digital themed channels: Rai 4 (series and movies), Rai 5 (series and docs), Rai Movie (feature films), Rai Gulp e Rai Yoyo (pre-school e pre-teens kids channels). In this respect i keep attending various festivals and audiovisual markets – see below. Current occupation Product scouting and evaluation for Rai free digital themed channels: Rai 4 (series and movies), Rai 5 (series and docs), Rai Movie (feature films), Rai Gulp e Rai Yoyo (pre-school e pre-teens kids channels). In this respect i keep attending various festivals and audiovisual markets – see below. Current occupation



Rai Sat

• Roma

• Head of Acquisitions and Co-Productions

  • Jul 1999 - Jul 2008

  I buy for all channels produced by RaiSat: Rai 4, Rai Movie, Rai Gulp and Rai Sat YoYo (kids), Rai Premium e Rai Extra. My position includes monitoring budget expenditure and editorial evaluation both for completed programmes (tv series such as “Mujeres” produced by Almodovar – Feature films, documentaries, cartoons and kids programming, talk shows, docs etc.) and new projects (i.e. “In Treatment”- the italian version). I buy extensively from all US Studios and TV Networks (MGM, Universal, CBS- Paramount, WB etc). I am responsible for both out-put and branded block agreements with various broadcasters and distributors such as BBC, Sesame Workshop and Hit entertainment. I select co-production projects which are brought to us at different levels of development. Over the last 12 years I have regularly participated in many international forums such as IDFA in Amsterdam, co-production meetings organized by EBU, Sunnyside of the Docs – Francia. In order to find product for all these channels I attend many International festivals and markets: USA (ie. LA Screenings, Sundance), Francia (ie. MIP TV, MIP COM), UK (ie. London Film Festival), EAVE (Estonia, Repubblica Ceca, Polonia), Sud Africa (Sithengi), Canada (ie. Banff, Toronto Film Festival, Hot Docs), Spagna (ie. Spanish screenings), Germania (ie. Berlin Film festival), Paesi Bassi (Amsterdam IDFA), Danimarca e Finlandia (Nordic Screenings), Morocco (festival Tetouan), Israel (Doc Aviv and Docushuk), Turchia (IFIstambul), Lebano (Docudays) etc. Show less



Feature Films

• Movies, Videos, and Sound
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Programming consultant

  • May 1997 - Jul 1999

  RAI Sat New Technologies and Media Services and Rai Sat spa, Rome Acquisitions Executive for Rai Sat 1 (Culture and Entertainment programming, Feature Films). This included both administrative and financial budget responsability. Presence at many international markets and conferences; . I was also in charge of liaising with Rai Radiotelevisione Italiana for the clearance of rights relating to RAI's vaste library. Negotiation of Joint Venture Agreements for both Rai Sat 1 and Rai Sat 2 (children channel) with various tv networks such as Nickelodeon, Discovery Communications and The History Channel-A/E International. Evaluation of co-production projects submitted to us by our distributors and producers, both at financial and creative level (C4, NVC Arts, RM, HC, etc) Product scouting for Encyclopedia (Rai Sat 3 ) and Rai Educational ("Mondo 3" on Rai 3, terrestrial). Independent Film Channel: presentation of a development plan centred on strategic alliances (BBC Films, Film Four Distributors, The Film Consortium etc.). Show less



SCALA Productions, London

• 2

  • Jun 1996 - May 1997

  Consultant to the Head of Business Affairs and Development Executive on the following Films: THE CRYING GAME DOWNTIME, starring Paul McGann and Susan Lynch VICIOUS CIRCLES, starring Ben Gazzara THE HOLLOW REED, written by Paula Milne, starring Martin Donovan and Ian Hart B-MONKEY, directed by Michael Radford, starring Jared Harris and Asia Argento THE RISE AND FALL OF LITTLE VOICE, starring Ewan McGregor and Jane Horrocks 24.7-THE CHURCH OF ALAN D’ARCY, starring Bob Hoskins SKIN TIGHT AND MORT, financed by New Line DIVORCING JACK, starring Robert Carlyle, financed by Mayfair and BBC Films Show less



EFA (European Film Academy), Berlin

• Executive Assistant

  • Jun 1996 - May 1997

  Executive Assistant to the Chairman of EFA, Nik Powell Creation of a finance plan for the Felix Awards event organization. Executive Assistant to the Chairman of EFA, Nik Powell Creation of a finance plan for the Felix Awards event organization.



BBC Films, London

• Londra, Regno Unito

• Development and Production assistant to Mark Shivas (Head of Films)

  • Jan 1996 - Jun 1996

  development and production assistant on the following movies: REVENGERS COMEDY with Helena Bonham Carter and Sam Neill LOVE AND DEATH ON LONG ISLAND, with John Hurt and Jason Priestly REGENERATION, written by Allan Scott WHITE CLOUDS written by Dennis Potter THE DESIGNATED MOURNER , directed by David Hare, starring Mike Nichols and Miranda Richardson I WENT DOWN, written by Conor McPherson and directed by Paddi Breathnach. -Distribution and Marketing: SMALL FACES directed by Gillies McKinnon and THE VAN directed by Stephen Frears. Show less



TV5, Paris

• Parigi, Francia

• Assistant to the Head of Audience Studies (Anne Claude de Mazières)

  • Jun 1994 - Sep 1994

  Scheduling/ Audience Studies/Production Assistant Scheduling/ Audience Studies/Production Assistant



N.R.G. The National Research Group, London

• Londra, Regno Unito

• Feature Film Marketing interviewer and analyst

  • Jan 1989 - May 1990

  interviewer and analyst interviewer and analyst