Riccardo Paoletti

Born in Arezzo - Tuscany (Italy) he has lived in the States for a while. Nowadays he is based in Milan (Italy). Riccardo started as a music video director (Zucchero, Franco Battiato, Ligabue, Midge Ure, Elio&st, and many others) developing a certain experience in "guerrilla" and "creative" productions. Besides his feature films activity, he is nowadays mostly a commercials director, but he also loves shooting tv promos, documentaries and web videos. He directed in his past more than 450 commercial productions having won various awards. He has also worked as vfx supervisor for some Italian films. His last feature is "Kileer mosquitoes" produced by Minerva pictures for Sky tv international: an eerie, action packed teen horror comedy selected at BIFAN 2018. In 2015 he shot "Neverlake" his first feature film: a dark ghost tale taking place in a mysterious Tuscany, entirely played in English and premiered at Courmayeur noir film festival. Recently it was presented also at SIFF (Shanghai film festival) and RIFF ( Russia-Italia film festival). "Basta poco" is his second feature co-directed with Andrea Muzzi (actor and script writer) and the collaboration of Ugo Chiti. It is a "social "comedy based on the search for happiness in our crisis period. He also directed "Dailies" a documentary/feature film premiered at Rome Film Festival and shown also at "Festival dei Popoli". So far his short films are "11 B" and "Questione di un attimo" with the performance of Michela Cescon and Giulia Bevilacqua. Riccardo specializes in creative cinematographic and visual storytelling, acting, humor, kid stories. He has also a strong competence in special effects. His commercial films are mostly institutional films (banks, media, services, etc.) and mass consumption products ( food, kids products, retail ). His directorial input is to add always a nice idea to the original script to get the most out of it, either plot or visually wise. He is known by his clients for adding always an original and human touch to the stories keeping an international but evident "personal style". Riccardo also collaborates in writing formats (Sky, Mediaset) and film ideas, directs some tv programs among which there is "X-Style" (famous Italian shows on fashion and lifestyle).