Adrian Picardi

Adrian Picardi
Born April 1987 (age 27–28)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation Film director, editor and screenwriter

Adrian Picardi (born April 1987) is a bi-racial "Italian-Korean" American filmmaker based in Los Angeles, California. For all his works thus far, he has been credited as director, writer, cinematographer, and editor. He got his start in the industry by independently creating original projects that utilized extremely low budgets, yet made them extremely commercially appealing in the visual sense. He shoots and produces many of his films in Los Angeles, California. Picardi graduated from South Pasadena High School in 2005. Currently, Picardi is working on several projects and is based out of Downtown Los Angeles.

Biography

Career

Picardi graduated from the Los Angeles Film School in 2006 at the age of 19 and jumped into the industry as an editor for Television. Picardi continued to pursue his directing career by independently producing his own projects. In 2007, Picardi created a short film called “His Day to Remember,” which was the Grand Prize Winner in the Cinematic Film2Music online competition. Using the raw, percussive chant-driven track "Steel & Sky," he created a visually compelling drama about a young man who is apparently a suicide bomber.

The film was also screened at the Sundance Film Festival 2007[1] and got him featured on MTVu.com as "Best Filmmaker on Campus" in December 2007.[2] Additionally, In 2007, he won the "Audience Award" for Myspace's John Woo Film Tribute contest for the Chow Yun-fat videogame "Stranglehold".[3] For his second short, "His Final Hit", it placed into the top ten finalists of the IFC Film "Assassin's Creed" Film Contest.[4]

Soon after, Picardi and his team created a low budget web series called “The Resistance” which started off as 4 short online teasers featured on YouTube.[5] Before filming the actual web show, the series was picked up by Sam Raimi’s Ghost House Pictures and Starz Media, after executives at Starz and Ghost House viewed "The Resistance" teasers online.[6][7] The web show aired on October 4, 2010, on the SyFy channel as a one hour television pilot along with being released in its original 8 episodic form on iTunes, Xbox Live, and the PlayStation Network.[8] "The Resistance" is Executive Produced by Ben Ketai, Scott Bayless, Scott Rogers, with producers Aaron Lam, and Associate Producer Don Le.[9][10][11] The pilot will reportedly make history, as it's the first time a series created originally for the web will first premiere on television.[12][13][14]

Picardi won the Universal Music / Decca Records online music video contest hosted by Talenthouse, for the band ERA, .[15] He also took home the Grand Prize award for the New York Times best-selling author Scott Sigler’s "Ancestor" film contest.[16] He also wrapped two more music videos, one for the band Automatic Love Letter[17][18] and Sony Music Entertainment / Epic Records, and another for the band Evans Blue.[19]

The Future, 2011 – present

In 2011, Picardi and Airsoft GI created a fan film based on the videogame series Left 4 Dead. Within 4 days of releasing the initial teaser, the clip amassed over 1.5 million views and massive buzz online,[20][21][22][23] including outlets such as PC Gamer,[24] Complex,[25] Game Informer,[26] and Valve (creators of the game itself).[27]

In early 2013, Picardi had created a production company Aureus Grex alongside his younger brother, Cameron Picardi, and longtime friend, Sunny Jain.

Filmography

Year Film Role Notes
2007 His Day To Remember Director, Writer, Cinematographer, Editor
2007 His Final Fight (John Woo Stranglehold game contest “Audience Award” winner) Director, Writer, Cinematographer, Editor
2007 His Final Hit (Top 10 Finalist in IFC “Assassin’s Creed” Contest) Director, Writer, Cinematographer, Editor
2009 "Makeup Smeared Eyes" music video | Automatic Love Letter Director, Writer, Cinematographer, Editor
2010 "Erase My Scars" music video | Evans Blue Director, Writer, Cinematographer, Editor
2010 "The Resistance Series"
2012 "Left 4 Dead" fan film Director, Editor

References

  1. ↑ Press Release - "Steel & Sky"
  2. ↑ BFOC Film of the Week: His Day To Remember | Video | mtvU
  3. ↑ MySpace
  4. ↑ IFC Media Lab
  5. ↑
  6. ↑
  7. ↑ http://www.aintitcool.com/node/46811
  8. ↑
  9. ↑ Hollywood Reporter Article - "The Resistance"
  10. ↑ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/17/AR2010091706351.html?wprss=rss_print/style Washington Post Article - "The Resistance"
  11. ↑ http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100917/wr_nm/us_resistance Yahoo News Article - "The Resistance"
  12. ↑ http://news.tubefilter.tv/2010/09/17/the-resistance-debuts-on-syfy-first-internet-second/ - "The Resistance" makes history
  13. ↑ http://pubsub.com/%E2%80%98The-Resistance%E2%80%99-Debuts-on-Syfy-First-Internet-Second_Tech-Articles-Featured-bi6vIa50Zgc,lHWBlzUCg8mE
  14. ↑ http://www.channelapa.com/2010/09/the-resistance-series-on-syfy.html
  15. ↑ Universal/Decca Records/ERA Contest winner
  16. ↑ Ancestor Film Contest winner
  17. ↑ Automatic Love Letter - "Makeup Smeared Eyes" music video
  18. ↑ ALL - "Makeup Smeared Eyes" article on Froggertv
  19. ↑ Evans Blue - "Erase My Scars" music video
  20. ↑ http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/114655-Left-4-Dead-Fan-Film-Gets-A-Surprisingly-Solid-Trailer
  21. ↑ http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/12/08/crikey-left-4-dead-fan-film-trailer/
  22. ↑ http://www.respawnaction.com/2011/12/i-want-moar-left-4-dead-fan-made-film.html
  23. ↑ http://www.joystiq.com/2011/12/11/left-4-dead-fan-film-teaser-brings-tears-to-our-eyes-joy-to-our/
  24. ↑ http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/12/08/left-4-dead-trailer-teases-intriguing-fan-film/
  25. ↑ http://www.complex.com/video-games/2011/12/left-4-dead-fan-film-goes-right-for-your-heartstrings
  26. ↑ http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2011/12/09/left-4-dead-fan-film-coming-soon.aspx
  27. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/Valve/posts/232212790181550
  1. http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/show-patrol/2010/04/somebody-to-watch-katrina-laws-ready-for-more-spartacus.html
  2. http://news.tubefilter.tv/2010/09/17/the-resistance-debuts-on-syfy-first-internet-second/
  3. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/17/AR2010091706351.html?wprss=rss_print/style
  4. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100917/wr_nm/us_resistance
  5. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i188fd3103facd85e9d81ab03a0c41175
  6. http://www.scottsigler.com/videocontest
  7. http://blog.talenthouse.com/archives/adrian-picardi-wins-the-era-and-universal-music-filmmaker-search/
  8. http://www.cinematiccd.com/films/trackindex8.html
  9. http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0oGdFEd5o9MQBQBBpdXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTE2b2xuY3RhBHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDOTIEY29sbwNzazEEdnRpZANWSVAwMDhfMTc2/SIG=12mrqnmoe/EXP=1284585373/**http%3a//www.kubilayuner.com/media/F2M-SundanceAndWinnersRelease.doc
  10. http://www.indiestar.tv/grafwall/2009/08/music-video-automatic-loveletter-makeup.html
  11. http://blog.memelabs.com/memelabs-is-famous/
  12. http://www.mtvu.com/video/?id=1575024&vid=191296
  13. https://www.myspace.com/strangleholdgame
  14. http://www.gigslist.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=85
  15. http://medialab.ifc.com/film_list.jsp?p=25
  16. https://www.youtube.com/swifferbreakup
  17. http://new.music.yahoo.com/evans-blue/videos/view/erase-my-scars--218698771
  18. http://froggertv.com/content/make-smeared-eyes

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