Carlo Ballauri

BIOGRAPHIE

Carlo was born in Genova, Italy. He is a writer, producer, and director based in Los Angeles and Rome. He became interested in movies and narrative entertainment at a very young age. His objective has always been to create worlds through the use of different media. He moved to Rome to study Marketing and Communication at the University of Rome La Sapienza, and graduated summa cum laude with a minor in cultural industry, strategic marketing, and semiotics. His thesis’ focus was on the “Intermediality in David Cronenberg’s movies: Videodrome and eXistenZ”. While attending university, he produced and directed several shorts, including Ta-Kuo or the Growth of the Great, chosen for distribution by the Canadian Ouat Media, and The Actress, reviewed at the Genoa Cinema America Festival among the best shorts produced by SDAC (Scuola D’arte Cinematografica) in 2008. In 2009, Carlo began working as a screenwriter for the theatrical actor and Rome Trastevere’s Teatro Belli supervisor, Antonio Salines. To continue his training , Carlo moved to Los Angeles, studying in production at UCLA and filmmaking at the NYFA. In Los Angeles, Carlo experimented with the use of 16 and 35mm in various art projects, while kickstarting a production team to direct music videos and commercials. In 2012, Carlo moved back to Italy with his newly founded production firm, I Cavalieri della Notte S.r.l. and the creative factory LITTLEBIG. He produced and directed La Diva, selected and awarded at numerous domestic and international festivals, including the San Antonio Film Festival in Texas, the LA Indie Film Festival in Los Angeles, the Salento International Film Festival in Italy, the Festival de la Luz Bogota in Colombia, the Carmarthen Bay Film Festival in Wales, and many others. While working as product manager/director at Cavalieri della Notte S.r.l., he also directed the web series’s Spazio Ultima Frontiera and helped to develop various music videos and commercials. Since 2013, Carlo has been collaborating with different companies as a business development and marketing expert, helping primarily with fundraising. In 2019, back in Los Angeles, Carlo founded Sukiyaki Studio LLC, a start-up dedicated to the ‘nurturing’ of high concept IPs for TV, movies, and the world of digital entertainment. While still working in commercials, television, and corporate advertising with his creative factory in Italy, Carlo developed two feature films, I Cavalieri della Notte a.k.a The Night Stallions and Cicale (Crickets). His biggest focus is currently on the creation of his first TV series The Recycling Man, for which he’s about to release a worldwide twelve-minute proof of concept, which he directed and produced in 2020.

FILMOGRAPHIE