Dario Baldi

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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

Biography

Dario 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 knowns 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, Dario 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 works as co-director (together with Davide Marengo), editor, cameraman, sound editor and art director on the rockumentary “Dallaltrapartedellaluna”, about the birth and raise 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 starts the preparation of two other movies. In 2010 Dario 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 strarts 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

Pablo (2005)
Dall'altra parte della luna (2007)
Narciso, dietro i cannoni, davanti ai muli (2008)
Gli anni verdi (2011)
Faccio un salto all'Avana (2011)
There's always a reason (2012)

Television

Crimini 2 - second unit director - episodes Little Dream e Neve Sporca (2008-2009)
Benvenuti a tavola - Nord vs Sud - (2011)

Music Videos

Negramaro - L'immenso (2007)
Negramaro - Cade la pioggia (2007)

Commercials

Pepsi (2009)
Rai Movie (2010)
Johnson & Johnson (2011)

Writer

Narciso, dietro i cannoni, davanti ai muli (2008)
La musica dell'anima
Una notte per caso
Frozen mescalina
Cenere
Pablo (2005)
I ragazzi di Città
The box - short movie
Click - short movie

Notes

External links

Dario Baldi at the Internet Movie Database
Sito ufficiale

v t e Dario Baldi's movies

Pablo (2005) · Dall'altra parte della luna (2007) · Narciso, dietro i cannoni, davanti ai muli (2008) · Gli anni verdi (2011) · Faccio un salto all'Avana (2011) · C'è sempre un perché (2012)

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Name	baldi, Dario
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Date of birth	1976-09-18
Place of birth	Rome, Italy
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