RESET Content has added Francesco Carrozzini to its directorial roster for representation worldwide.
His film FRANCA: Chaos & Creation premiered at this year’s Venice Film Festival, garnering plaudits including a New York Times review which praised it as being a “stand out.”
Carrozzini’s career started in 2001 at age 19, while still in college as a philosophy major, when he directed a promo for Italian MTV. He has directed commercials and music videos with a wide range of celebrity talent and his work has been featured in festivals around the world. He was previously handled by Swordfight for music videos in the U.S.
Francesco Carrozzini is an Emmy award nominated director, well known internationally for his cinematic style and portrait photography. The Daytime Emmy nod came in 2010 for the New York Times Screen Test Series, a collection of intimate video interviews with a variety of entertainment figures, including Natalie Portman, Charlize Theron, and Marion Cotillard. The series received a nomination in the “New Approaches–Daytime Entertainment” category at the 37th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards.”
First-Time Feature Directors Make Major Splash At AFI Fest, Generate Oscar Buzz
Two first-time feature directors who are generating Oscar buzz this awards season were front and center this past weekend at AFI Fest in Hollywood. Rachel Morrison, who made history as the first woman nominated for a Best Cinematography Oscar---on the strength of Mudbound in 2018--brought her feature directorial debut, The Fire Inside (Amazon MGM Studios), to the festival on Sunday (10/27), and shared insights into the film during a conversation session immediately following the screening. This came a day after William Goldenberg, an Oscar-winning editor for Argo in 2013, had his initial foray into feature directing, Unstoppable (Amazon MGM Studios), showcased at the AFI proceedings. He too spoke after the screening during a panel discussion. The Fire Inside--which made its world premiere at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival--tells the story of Claressa “T-Rex” Shields (portrayed by Ryan Destiny), a Black boxer from Flint, Mich., who trained to become the first woman in U.S. history to win an Olympic Gold Medal in the sport. She achieved this feat--with the help of coach Jason Crutchfield (Brian Tyree Henry)--only to find that her victory at the Summer Games came with relatively little fanfare and no endorsement deals. So much for the hope that the historic accomplishment would be a ticket out of socioeconomic purgatory for Shields and her family. It seemed like yet another setback in a cycle of adversity throughout Shields’ life but she persevered, going on to win her second Gold Medal at the next Olympics and becoming a champion for gender equality and equitable pay for women in sports. Shields has served as a source of inspiration for woman athletes worldwide--as well as to the community of... Read More