• MARIO ADDIS

    CARTOON FILM DIRECTOR

BIOGRAPHY

Mario Addis, born in Tempio Pausania, Sardinia, started working in 1984 as an animator in Michel Fuzellier and Giovanni Ferrari’s studio. In 1989, he founded the production studio Gertie together with Franco Serra and started working as a producer and director.
He directed several commercials, TV theme songs and video clips (he devised the opening credits of ‘Mostro’ by Roberto Benigni and the first video clip of ‘Voglia Di Gridare’ by Daniele Silvestri, an Italian singer). In 1999, Oreste Del Buono, director of Linus magazine, published his series on the vampire ‘Alef’, which ran for more than a year.
As an animator, he works with talented directors, such as Maurizio Nichetti, Dario Fo, Giulio Cingoli, Enzo D’Alò and Roberto Benigni.

With his animated works, he takes part in foreign productions, such as ‘The Fever’ by HBO, a film directed by Gabriel Carlo Nero, starring Vanessa Redgrave and Angelina Jolie.
He was in charge of the technical direction and supervision of the storyboard and backgrounds, the Lay-Outs and animation, and the colouring and compositing of the 26 episodes of the series ‘Adrian’, by Adriano Celentano, produced by Clan and Mediaset.
In 2015, he was awarded an Honorary Degree from the Scuola Nazionale di Cinema.
His latest works, which he created and directed, were ‘Robin Hood, raccontato da Veronica Pivetti’ (Robin Hood told by Veronica Pivetti), a one-hour TV movie, co-produced by Rai and Progetto Immagine, and ‘Pene e Cruditè’ (Pain and Crudités), a self-produced, three-minute short film.

FILMOGRAPHY

2018
 “Tyger, short
 “Vasco e Viola, short
 “Ego – Palloni Gonfiati, short

2016
 “Arexpo, commercial

2015
“Adrian” Film Director Consultant and Supervisor (storyboard, animation, background, color and compositing), Tv Movie

2014
Pene e Crudité (Nude and Crude), short

2013
Robin Hood told by Veronica Pivetti, Tv movie

2011
Casse Rurali Trentine, commercial (Special Star Award Mediastars 2012)

2008
 “Fornarina Urban Beauty”, video-installation in “Carrousel du Louvre Paris”

2007
Opening credits for documentary Un principe chiamato Totò, by Fabrizio Berruti

2004
Animation sequences for feature film The Fever, by Carlo Gabriel Nero, with Vanessa Redgrave and Angelina Jolie

2002
Florida and “Cristianesimo” sequences for feature film “Johan Padan a la descoverta de le Americhe”, by Giulio Cingoli, written by the Nobel Prize Dario Fo

2001
Opening credits for Tv series “Bradipo”

1999
La materia, short (Special Mention Viareggio EuropaCinema 2000)

1998
Heartbeat, short (Free Your Mind MTV Award 1998)

1998
Il sogno di Nina sequence for feature film “La gabbianella e il gatto”, by Enzo D’Alò

1996
Opening credits for short “Rosso tigre”

1994
Giano, short

1994
Opening credits for feature film Il mostro, by the Academy Award winning Roberto Benigni

1992
Fai la cosa giusta, commercial series (Palmarès at Annecy IAFF ADV section 1993)

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