I V A N A M A S S E T T I
WRITER/DIRECTOR/PRODUCER
FILMS THE FILM THIEF Writer Polar Star, Argentina/US PATCHES OF FIRE Writer/Producer Who Dares Wins, US/ (adaptation of NY Times best-selling author Albert French’s autobiography) Artemisia Films, France NADRO (French/African Docu-Drama) Writer/Director/Producer Pompidou Center, Agnés B., (Original Score by Golden Globe winner Lisa Gerrard) Artemisia Films, France See attached list of international festivals etc. MONTENEROS Writer RAI Cinema, Italy (Written with José Louzeiro – award winning screenwriter for Hector Babenco - Pixote) RED JAGUARS Writer Number One International, Italy DOMINO Writer/Director Clemi Cinematografica, Italy (Written with Gerard Brach – award winning screenwriter for Polansky, Annaud, Berri) A GIRL UNDER THE INFLUENCE Writer RAI Uno, Italy (Winner of “Best Tv Movie Screenplay”) SHE Assistant Director & Sarlui, US Dir. Avi Nesher Art Director ATHOR Assistant Director Sarlui/US, Filmirage/France
AND Assistant Director - Script Girl - Assistant Editor - Electrician - Gofer in several other Italian, Spanish and Japanese films.
TELEVISION THE LIFE OF LUCIANO PAVAROTTI Writer/Exec. Producer Indiana Prod. Co., Italy/US (TV Miniseries) THE FABLE TRIBUNAL - TV Series Creator/Writer/Producer FRANCE 3 Television, France THE JACOBEAN MARQUISE - TV Film Writer/Director/Producer RAI 2/Malusa Films, Italy (with Domiziana Giordano & Paolo Bonacelli) ERNEST HEMINGWAY – 6 hour mini-series 1st Assistant Director TVE, Spain (with Victor Garber) Historical Research LA BELLE OTERO – 6 hour mini-series 1st Assistant Director Scanni Prod., Italy/Spain (with Harvey Keitel & Angela Molina) IT’S CALLED WOMAN - weekly TV show Assistant Director RAI 2, Italy
SHORT FILMS/PSA’s GYPSY FABLE Exec. Producer Pavarotti Int’l 23, Italy VOICES FROM THE SILENCE - SERIES Creator/Writer/Director SIDA, C’EST LES AUTRES - PSA Director 3000 Scripts Against a Virus (Special Screenings – Cannes & Venice Film Festivals) (French AIDS campaign) France IMAGES AGAINST VIOLENCE Creator/Writer/Dir/Prod RAI 2/Malusa Films, Italy Series of 18 PSA’s 1 1/2 minutes each (Theatrical & Broadcast)
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MUSIC & FASHION VIDEOS KANDINSKY’S BLUE KNIGHT (Theater Video) Director/Co-Producer La Gaia Scienza, Italy (Winner Barcelona Biennale & Polverigi International Theater Festival) ALOHA (POOH) Writer/Director/Producer First Organization, Italy (1 hr. music video TV special) ASIA NON ASIA (POOH) Writer/Director/Producer First Organization, Italy (1 hr. music video TV special)
Writer/Director/Producer for more than 40 music videos in Italy, France, Germany & Brazil Writer/Director fashion video presentations for Gianfranco Ferre, Madras and Robe de Kappa
FEATURE PROJECTS IN DEVELOPMENT – Nomads Entertainment / I M From Mars Films ONE DAY IN AMERICA (TV/Digital Series) Writer/Director/Creator I M From Mars Films, US THE POET (Drama) Writer/Director I M From Mars Films, US MOGADOR (Action/Heist/ Road Movie) Writer/Director I M From Mars Films, US LEONARDO (Biopic Comedy) Writer I M From Mars Fims US and (adapted from the book “Leonardo’s Kitchen Note Books”) Nomads Entertainment, US MR. GLADIATOR (Dramedy) Writer/Director Nomads Entertainment, US A GIRL UNDER THE INFLUENCE (Drama) Writer/Director I M From Mars Films, US ALL THE QUEEN’S MEN (Drama/Thriller) Writer/Director I M From Mars Films, US LOOKING FOR MARCELLO Writer I M From Mars Films, US (Romantic Comedy) EXCUSE ME, HAVE YOU SEEN THE ALIENS? Writer/Director I M From Mars Films, US (Romantic Comedy) LOVE IS A FAIRY TALE (Romantic Comedy) Writer I M From Mars Films, US VOICES FROM THE SILENCE (TV Series) Writer/Director/Creator I M From Mars Films, US
PRIZES AND FESTIVALS and SPECIAL SCREENINGS
A GIRL UNDER THE INFLUENCE - Winner of “Best Tv Movie Screenplay” – RAIUNO Screenplay Competition, Italy KANDINSKY’S BLUE KNIGHT - Winner Barcelona Biennale & Polverigi International Theater Festival AIDS, THAT’S FOR OTHER PEOPLE - Cannes & Venice Film Festivals - Special Screenings NADRO – Festivals (1998-2003) Berlin Film Festival - 1998 Official Selection - Panorama Section Int’l Fest. Of Films on Art, Montreal Prize - Best Essay Sydney Int’l Film Festival Prize - Top 10 Mill Valley Film Festival Athens Festival of Films on Art Namur Francophone Film Festival, Belgium Amiens Int’l Film Festival, France 6th Biennale of Film on Art - Georges Pompidou Centre, France Oslo Int’l Film Festival, Norway Tubingen International Film Festival, Germany FESPACO, Burkina Faso Dhaka Int’l Film Festival, Bangladesh Tunis Film Festival, Tunisia 2003
7946 W. 4th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90048 • (323) 592-3153 tel. • (310) 880-4940 cell [email protected]
NADRO – Special Screenings (partial list) National Gallery, Washington D.C. U.C.Berkeley PBS Selected to be studied at Australian School of Film and Television of Sidney USC – School of Cinematic Art - May 19 - 2014
GYPSY FABLE – Winner “Best Producer” - La Cittadella del Corto Festival, Italy
Mentor and Teacher for the Screenwriting program Qalambaaz (Pakistan) 2015-2016 / 2017-2018
Founder and CEO of the Movement/Organization Women Occupy Hollywood
A nomad writer-director-producer, Ivana Massetti was born in Todi (Italy) and lived and worked in Spain, France, Brazil, Africa, Argentina and now the US. She is fluent in Spanish, French and English. She studied Sociology, Ancient Letters (Greek and Latin) in Rome and the Literature of the “Siglo de Oro” in Barcelona. She began her career directing music videos and continued in the film business. Wrote her first film, Domino, with Gerard Brach (Polansky's writer) and collaborated with extraordinary talents such as Harvey Keitel, Andrej Konchalovski, José Louzeiro and Daisy de Galard. Her film Nadro, about the artist-scholar Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, earned awards and high praise in film festivals all over the world. It is studied as an example of excellence in filmmaking at the University of Film and TV in Sidney, Australia. She recently wrote the miniseries The Life of Luciano Pavarotti, for which she is also an executive producer, for Indiana Production Company. She is also interested in, and has devoted her work to, spreading awareness about important issues such as Child Abuse, Violence against Women, Women's Rights and Gay Rights. She just created the Cinema For Justice Project and is actively working on their maiden endeavor, "One Day In America", a portrait of the US through stories dealing with controversial issues such as guns, health, gay rights, women’s rights, immigration, PTSD, the death penalty etc. all happening on the same day in America. Ivana firmly believes that the film industry can continue to produce movies that can make a difference.
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