RENATA TARDANI

 

After a degree in History and Philosophy,  she became a documentary and advertising producer.

 

She started in BRW, one of the biggest Italian production companies and for five years was on board of directors and head of its Production Department.  

She was  then assistant to the producer in Filmalpha, a production company in Rome that produced, among others, Death in Venice by Visconti, The Desert of the Tartars by Zurlini and Ecce Bombo by Nanni Moretti. 

In BRW and as a free lancer, she worked for National and International Clients and with many of the most acclaimed directors, either from the cinema and advertising environment (such as Federico Fellini, Michael Bay, Jean Paul Rappenau, Ettore Scola, Mauro Bolognini, Steve Chase, Rick Levine, Carlton Chase). 

Since 2006 she was for four years the Italian partner of the Stillking Network. and  worked on both commercials and feature films (such as Kinky Boots, a Disney Production and Revelations an NBC series).

In 1996 she started her own Production Company Miro Film, producing her own commercials, music promos and documentaries. Among others, Poetry you see me, a documentary directed by Marina Spada which was presented at the Venice Film Festival in 2009, The girls of Milan (50’), a documentary about the most important Milanese actresses, Bread and meat (50’), that looks at the different ways our Christian world and the Islamic world conceive of life. It has also produced a series of 24  documentaries on the Italian Photography. - A sharp cold pin - 50’ a documentary about  anorexia - - 2010 – My school – One year at the Rinnovata Pizzigoni – 60’, a film based on the daily life at the Rinnovata, a public school conceived on beauty, light, open air and green areas, with an orchard and a farm where the children are being taught while concentrating on farming activities, - Flowers that return to life - 15’, a documentary about the centre in Addis Abeba that deals with children who have been raped

She is now working on Born in S. Siro, a documentary about the neighborhood kids, Sciamn! - a series of mysteries for children, Thinking Hearts – a docufiction on the thought of the Dutch writer Etty Hillesum in comparison with the great themes of today.

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