STEFANO TEALDI, Producer/Director Born in 1955, Johannesburg (South Africa), Italian nationality English mother tongue, living in Italy since 1970. Spoken French and Spanish.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 1984-2012 Founds and directs STEFILM International s.r.l, an independent AV production company in Italy. 1986-1996 Head of audiovisual (AV) production, Faculty of Architecture - Politecnico di Torino FILM PRODUCTION 2012 Head of Development for Stefilm International s.r.l. 2001- 2012 He directs and produces numerous documentaries and one feature fiction, Executive producer for: VINYLMANIA (75'/52') ZDF/Arte, Lato Sensu, MDR, YLE, Piemonte D.F.F., MEDIA; MOSTAR UNITED (75'/52') Petra Pan Productions Slovenia, Multicanal Iberia, RTF BiH, Lichtpunt, NRK,RTV Slovenia, TSI, Piemonte D.F.F.; GLOBAL FOOD series 4 x 52' with Artline Films and France 5, YLE, RTBF, La7 and TVSlovenja; PIEMONTE STORIES, collection 12 x 10' with YLE FST and TSI; BUILDING THE WINTER GAMES, series 3 x 46', for Discovery Channel Europe; MY THREE PEAKS with Arte France, ORF, YLE FST; GELATO: AN ENDLESS PASSION with NDR/Arte, AVRO, YLE Teema; CITIZEN BERLUSCONI with Thirteen/WNET, YLE, in ass: DR, RTBF, NRK, SVT, VRT, VPRO; CRUMBLING HOUSES with ZDF/Arte; RICE GIRLS with YLE and TSI; LEONARDO DA VINCI: THE MAN BEHIND THE SHROUD? for National Geographic; PORTO MARGHERA – VENICE: in coprod. SRG SSR idée suisse, TSI, ARTE, BR, RTBF, MEDIA; SONG ON A NARROW PATH - STORIES FROM JERUSALEM with BR, RTBF, in association with TELE+, SOROS FOUNDATION, DDC, MEDIA; MIRABELLA/SINDELFINGEN, RETURN TICKET TO GERMANY in coproduction with Filmtank, Angel Film, 3SAT, Planète, Danish Film Institute. 1988-2012 As a director: COFFEE PLEASE! (52'), TEA FOR ALL (52'), DOCTOR ICE (58'), A WORLD OF PASTA (part of GLOBAL FOOD series - 52'); ERITREA:THE RED LAND (26’); FRONTE POLISARIO (2x20’); IMAGEN MADRID (28’); THE MONSTER AT SCHOOL (26'). 2000 Associate producer on EUtopia for BBC, ARTE and others. 1999 Directs TOUGHER THAN THE REST, 56min documentary on Eritrea. 1993 Head of production: INFORMATICA; 80 X 60 min. for RAI/Consorzio Nettuno 1992 Assistant director of INCONTRO AI GIORNI, a 35mm. feature fiction film PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES 1998-2012 Shopsteward and National Coordinator for INPUT, Television in the Public Interest 1997-2012 Director DOCUMENTARY IN EUROPE association and event coordinator (15 editions) 2004 Moderator on International Partnerships in AV production - World Bank Conference 2004, WashingtonDC, Moderator on Media and Politics – A Case study at Bergen Media Conference,Norway 1993-1997 Founds the F.E.R.T. (Filming with a European Regard in Turin) Association together with Av and MM producers, authors, technicians. 1998-2001 Chairman of the European Documentary Network (EDN) TEACHING 1999-2012 Training courses on documentary cinema financing and production for: Pompeu-Fabra Univ. (Barcelona), Zelig School of Cinema (Bolzano), Politecnico/Corep,VR+MMP, Scuola Holden (Torino). Tutor on documentary and fiction production workshops for EDN, EAVE, EURODOC, DOCEDEGE, DOCUMENTRY CAMPUS, IDFA, LES 3 CONTINENTS in: Barcelona, Malaga, Thessaloniki, Riga, Jihlava, Athens, Rio de Janeiro, Marseilles, London, Lisbon, Malta, Ghent, Cairo, Tel Aviv, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Bornholm, Thallinn, Helsinki, Washington DC, Kolkata, Belgrade, Prague, 1998-2012 Strasbourg, Istanbul, Buenos Aires, Nantes, Recife, Tunis, Zagreb, Bucharest, Ljubljana, Nairobi 1996 Conducts workshop at the Escola Politecnica de Universidad de San Paolo, Brasil 1990-1994 Assistant prof. ‘Technologies and methods of visual communication’ Politecnico di Torino EDUCATION AND TRAINING 1992 Graduates at the EAVE-Europe of the MEDIA programme 1987 Training on documentary making: stage directed by Jean Rouch on the film ENIGMA 1986 Graduates with a Master Degree in Architecture at the Politecnico di Torino Stefano Tealdi, Via B. Galliari 5B 10125 Torino Italy +39 011 6680017 [email protected] www.stefilm.it