Dario Baldi

Dario Baldi
Born (1976-09-18) September 18, 1976
Rome, Italy
Nationality Italian
Occupation Film director, writer
Years active 2005–present
Website www.dariobaldi.com

Dario Baldi (born September 18, 1976) is an Italian film director, documentarian and writer.

Biography

Dario Baldi grew up in a family devoted to cinema. Marcello, his father, directed over 100 documentaries (such as “Italia K2”, about the 1954 conquest of K2) and more than 30 movies (e.g. Saul e David and other movies with a biblical subject). Dario immediately showed a natural attitude toward cinema, the set, and editing, playing in several different roles in movies since he was a child. Starting as editor (working with internationally known directors of both cinema and advertising, such as Robert Altman) he passed to directing music videos and commercials, to documentaries and, finally, to cinema.

Among the most relevant documentary activities was “Managers”, written and directed by Dario in 1998 using a small camera, which showed Roman homeless people’s lives. Dario also wrote and directed several short films that were awarded at European festivals. He also directed the movie “Pablo”,[1][2][3][4][5] about Pablo Neruda’s life, an exercise of improvisation, shot in Neruda’s places and using non professional actors that he met along his journey following Neruda’s footsteps. As a result, the movie is a cinematographic opera in which common people such as a waiter, a fisherman’s son and others. While innovative and unique in its kind, Pablo is immediately welcomed with benevolence and, in a short lapse of time, the movie is presented at Montreal Festival, Los Angeles AFI Film Festival and in several other international exhibitions where it gets positive acknowledgments from the public and good reviews from Variety and New York Times.[6] In 2008 “Pablo” was broadcast on some European channels, such as Swedish national television.

After a period in the USA, where he worked on the 2 fast 2 furious advertising campaign, Baldi moved to England where he lived and worked as a director for five years for Universal Music, BBC, Channel 4 and Turner, ranging from advertising to movies. He also worked in Russia, Thailand, Canada and several European countries, still continuing his cooperation with the above mentioned subjects.

In 2007, Dario carried on several projects, such as the movie Zero (featuring Dario Fo, Lella Costa and Moni Ovadia) and he worked as co-director (together with Davide Marengo), editor, cameraman, sound editor and art director on the rockumentary Dallaltrapartedellaluna, about the birth and rise of Negramaro.[7][8][9][10][11][12][13] The movie was screened as special event on the “ Orizzonti” section on the 64th Venice International Film Festival,[12] and was broadcast on Italia 1 television and then was edited as a DVD. For this band (and also for other musicians) he directs several music videos and in 2008 he is awarded with the Roma Videoclip Award and the second place on the Italian videoclip award.

Together with Marcello, his father, he directed, in 2008, the movie Narciso, dietro i cannoni, davanti ai muli, winner of eight film festivals, among which the RIFF.[14][15] In 2009 he worked as second unit director for the “Crimini 2” fiction, broadcast by Rai 2 in prime time and, in the mean time, still directs commercials and videoclips for Pepsi, Chrysler, Sony, Universal, Emi and other companies. In the same period he was invited by Marzi gallery for presenting some of his works in Berlin, New York and Rome.[16]

Afterward he wrote some scripts, such as the one concerning the life of Mapplethorpe, the photographer, and the resulting movie was presented by Wim Wenders and started the preparation of two other movies. In 2010 Baldi worked on the movie Gli Anni Verdi,[17] featuring some young actors from Artes school along with actors such as Roberto Herlitzka, Dario Vergassola and Enrico Brignano. In July 2010 he started with the latter, and with Francesco Pannofino, the shooting of the movie Faccio un salto all'Avana,[18] for Medusa Cinema.

In 2012 he filmed There's always a reason, an Italian-Chinese co-production, starring Maria Grazia Cucinotta and Huang Hai Bo.[19][20][21]

Filmography

Director

Cinema

Television

Music videos

Commercials

Writer

Notes

  1. ↑ Movie Database, Television Data, Data Licensing - Baseline
  2. ↑ Pablo: Lifes of a Poet (2005) - Italie - Dario Baldi - FIPA 2006
  3. ↑ "Out of the Woodwork". briancampbell.blogspot.com. Retrieved 14 May 2015.
  4. ↑ Justin Chang. "Pablo: The Poet’s Lives - Variety". Variety. Retrieved 14 May 2015.
  5. ↑ Corriere.com - Corriere Canadese Online
  6. ↑ Pablo-The-Poet-s-Lives - Trailer - Cast - Showtimes - NYTimes.com
  7. ↑ "Concerti, tour e video-cellulari i Negramaro dal rock al cinema - Spettacoli & Cultura - Repubblica.it". repubblica.it. Retrieved 14 May 2015.
  8. ↑ "I Negramaro al Lido con un rockumentary"Cinema e musica emozioni non separate"". repubblica.it. Retrieved 14 May 2015.
  9. ↑ Il film sui Negramaro a Venezia - LASTAMPA.it
  10. ↑ "E i Negramaro celebrano il successo". ilgiornale.it. Retrieved 14 May 2015.
  11. ↑ "2. Giornata della 64. Mostra d'Arte Cinematografica di Venezia". cinemaitaliano.info. Retrieved 14 May 2015.
  12. 1 2 ""Dall’altra parte della luna" di Dario Baldi e Davide Marengo". nonsolocinema.com. Retrieved 14 May 2015.
  13. ↑ "La musica, i video, le news, le classifiche musicali e le serie TV in onda su MTV". MTV Italia. Retrieved 14 May 2015.
  14. ↑ "“Ciso” vince la 62. Edizione del "Festival Internazionale del Cinema di Salerno" - CinemaItaliano.info". cinemaitaliano.info. Retrieved 14 May 2015. C1 control character in |title= at position 1 (help)
  15. ↑ Mo-Net s.r.l. Milano-Firenze. "Forum Narciso - Dietro ai cannoni, davanti ai muli". mymovies.it. Retrieved 14 May 2015.
  16. ↑ http://www.artmbassy.com/ausstellung/documents_presse.pdf
  17. ↑ GLI ANNI VERDI. YouTube. 9 March 2011. Retrieved 14 May 2015.
  18. ↑ Medusa - Medusa Film - Faccio un salto all'Avana
  19. ↑ "Agenzia di Stampa Italpress - "C'È SEMPRE UN PERCHÈ", CUCINOTTA PRESENTA COMMEDIA A FAVIGNANA". italpress.com. Retrieved 14 May 2015.
  20. ↑ Matilde Geraci. "C’È SEMPRE UN PERCHÉ". palermo24h.com. Retrieved 14 May 2015.
  21. ↑ ""C'è sempre un perchè": arriva la prima coproduzione italo-cinese". SiciliaInformazioni. Retrieved 14 May 2015.

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