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Tino Franco(I)

  • Producer
  • Director
  • Writer
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He has been passionate about films and the making of them all his life. Highlights from his career are the "Nel blu dipinto di blu Studios", which he created in Rome in 2000, where he has developed a multitude of shorts, television promos, sit-coms and film design projects, using tools including fluorescent lighting and a blue screen. His first short, "Space Off", won the prestigious Nastro D'Argento Award (akin to BAFTA). More recently he directed two sit-coms for Fox Italy: "Italiani nello Spazio" and "Ascensore". He created the "Piramide Channel", which is an experimental event featuring television that can be watched in only a theatre. Over the past twenty years he has also produced and directed more than one hundred videos (TV station ID's for MTV, Studio Universal, Sci-Fi Channel, Fox, RAI) as well as many corporate videos with advertising agencies such as Saatchi & Saatchi, Young & Rubicam and McCann Erickson, involving pop stars, scientists, top managers, and Nobel prize winners.
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    • Awards
      • 3 wins & 3 nominations total

    Known for

    Space Off (2002)
    Space Off
    6.1
    Short
    • Producer(uncredited)
    • 2002
    Italiani nello Spazio (2004)
    Italiani nello Spazio
    TV Mini Series
    • Producer
    Ugo Gregoretti in Ugo & Francesco (2017)
    Ugo & Francesco
    Short
    • Producer
    • 2017
    Second Chance (2008)
    Second Chance
    Short
    • Producer
    • 2008

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    • Io, il tubo e le pizze (2023)
      Io, il tubo e le pizze
      • associate producer
      • 2023
    • Le dee di Olimpia (2022)
      Le dee di Olimpia
      • executive producer
      • 2022
    • Sofia abbraccia il mondo (2022)
      Sofia abbraccia il mondo
      Short
      • producer
      • 2022
    • Alessandro Cerquetti, kwaaui, Pietro Salemme, James Franco, Giacomo Bucolo, Elpidio Esposto Gasparetti, Stefania Ammirati, Anna Maria Giacomelli, Alessandro Giacopetti, Paolo Zanolli, Giulio Arca, Gabriele Carchedi, Marco Raponi, Francesco Scardigno, Vincenza Diana Ruffino, Elpidio Esposto Gasparetti, Tino Franco, Guglielmo Favilla, Matteo Martone, Filippo Genovese, Daniele Coscarella, Tony Martone, and Daria Neverova in Percepire l'invisibile (2022)
      Percepire l'invisibile
      • producer
      • 2022
    • Francesco Gallo in Sportiva (2021)
      Sportiva
      TV Mini Series
      • executive producer
      • 2021
    • Il giro dell'horror (2019)
      Il giro dell'horror
      TV Series
      • co-producer
      • 2021
    • Negri. Sport in the U.S.A. (2020)
      Negri. Sport in the U.S.A.
      • executive producer
      • 2020
    • Edoardo Carboni, Alba Giaquinto, Andrea Quintili, Stefano Pietrasanta, Adele Materazzi, Giovanni Trombetta, kwaaui, Tino Franco, Alessio Morglia, Filippo Genovese, and Ludovico Paiella in Romance (2019)
      Romance
      Short
      • producer
      • 2019
    • Think Big! (2019)
      Think Big!
      Short
      • executive producer
      • 2019
    • Norma Ray Franco in Il vestito della sposa (2017)
      Il vestito della sposa
      Short
      • producer
      • 2017
    • Ugo Gregoretti in Ugo & Francesco (2017)
      Ugo & Francesco
      Short
      • producer
      • 2017
    • Buon Compleanno Italia (2011)
      Buon Compleanno Italia
      Short
      • producer
      • 2011
    • Second Chance (2008)
      Second Chance
      Short
      • producer
      • 2008
    • Italiani nello Spazio (2004)
      Italiani nello Spazio
      TV Mini Series
      • executive producer
      • 2004
    • Space Off (2002)
      Space Off
      6.1
      Short
      • executive producer
      • producer (uncredited)
      • 2002

    Director



    • Alessandro Cerquetti, kwaaui, Pietro Salemme, James Franco, Giacomo Bucolo, Elpidio Esposto Gasparetti, Stefania Ammirati, Anna Maria Giacomelli, Alessandro Giacopetti, Paolo Zanolli, Giulio Arca, Gabriele Carchedi, Marco Raponi, Francesco Scardigno, Vincenza Diana Ruffino, Elpidio Esposto Gasparetti, Tino Franco, Guglielmo Favilla, Matteo Martone, Filippo Genovese, Daniele Coscarella, Tony Martone, and Daria Neverova in Percepire l'invisibile (2022)
      Percepire l'invisibile
      • Director (directed by)
      • 2022
    • Ugo Gregoretti in Ugo & Francesco (2017)
      Ugo & Francesco
      Short
      • Director (directed by)
      • 2017
    • 65 times A.N.A.C. (2017)
      65 times A.N.A.C.
      • co-director
      • 2017
    • Buon Compleanno Italia (2011)
      Buon Compleanno Italia
      Short
      • Director (directed by)
      • 2011
    • Second Chance (2008)
      Second Chance
      Short
      • Director (directed by)
      • 2008
    • L'Ascensore (2004)
      L'Ascensore
      TV Mini Series
      • Director (directed by)
      • 2004–2005
    • Italiani nello Spazio (2004)
      Italiani nello Spazio
      TV Mini Series
      • Director (directed by)
      • 2004
    • Space Off (2002)
      Space Off
      6.1
      Short
      • Director
      • 2002

    Writer



    • Edoardo Carboni, Alba Giaquinto, Andrea Quintili, Stefano Pietrasanta, Adele Materazzi, Giovanni Trombetta, kwaaui, Tino Franco, Alessio Morglia, Filippo Genovese, and Ludovico Paiella in Romance (2019)
      Romance
      Short
      • screenplay
      • 2019
    • Ugo Gregoretti in Ugo & Francesco (2017)
      Ugo & Francesco
      Short
      • written by
      • 2017
    • 65 times A.N.A.C. (2017)
      65 times A.N.A.C.
      • writer
      • 2017
    • Buon Compleanno Italia (2011)
      Buon Compleanno Italia
      Short
      • writer
      • 2011
    • Second Chance (2008)
      Second Chance
      Short
      • written by
      • 2008
    • Italiani nello Spazio (2004)
      Italiani nello Spazio
      TV Mini Series
      • created by (creator)
      • 2004
    • Space Off (2002)
      Space Off
      6.1
      Short
      • screenplay
      • story
      • 2002

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