One of the well-established directors to date is Francesco Carrozzini. Young and talented, he released about a dozen short films that were presented at various film festivals.
Francesco Carrozzini. Biography
September 9, 1982 in Italy in the provincial town of Monza (a suburb of Milan) was born Francesco Carrozzini. The biography of little Francesco is not too large, today little is known. Father was the chief editor of Vogue magazine. His mother, Franca Sozzani, who wrote several books about fashion, was the winner of art awards.
Francesco Carrozzini from childhood was surrounded by musicians, artists and actors. As a teenager, he and his comrades began to shoot his first short films. Francesco was so keen on directing that in 1999 he moved to Los Angeles to study directing at the University of California. Then Carrozzini returned to Milan and studied philosophy at a local university. After some time, the young man left for New York, where he is now.
Francesco had an affair with singer Lana Del Rey. For the first time in public, they were seen in the summer of 2014. According to media reports, the couple broke up, but there were no official statements on termination of the relationship.
Career
Francesco Carrozzini acts not only as a director, but also as a producer and cameraman. He has accounted for fourteen films, including thirteen short films and one documentary entitled Franca. Chaos and creativity. ” The film tells about Francesco's mother, Franco Sozzani, about how she built her career and fought for the rights of African women. Attention is also paid to the relationship of Sozzani with his son, who acted as producer and director of this picture. It took four years to make the film, during which time a lot of material was collected: photos, interviews, videos. According to Sozzani and Carrozini themselves, they learned a lot while working on the film.
And Francesco Carrozzini received his first assignment at nineteen from the Italian MTV. Then orders from advertising agencies followed, and in 2006 the young director began filming a documentary about the Polish theater Virzalin.
He shot a video for the New York Times, which featured such famous actresses as Natalie Portman and Charlize Theron. After some time, his short psychological thriller “1937” was presented at the Venice Film Festival. At the same festival, the above-described film about Frank was presented, which will also be screened in Mumbai, Vancouver and Tallinn. Francesco himself said that he is currently working on a second film, which is feature.
The photo
As a photographer, Francesco Carrozzini has established himself in Esquire, Rolling Stone, Vogue, Vanity Fair, The Wall Street Journal and other publications.
He showed himself remarkably in the portrait genre, organized his own exhibitions of photographs in May 2007 and 2010, also in May and September 2015. Francesco worked with stars such as Angelina Jolie, Cate Blanchett, Robert De Niro, Scarlett Johansson and Mila Jovovich, as well as politicians such as Goodluck Jonathan, Tony Blair, Michael Bloomberg and others. In an interview, Francesco said that he took up photography quite by accident. It was just a hobby. We hope that Francesco will become even more famous in the field of cinema and photography.