Dario Baldi
| Dario Baldi | |
|---|---|
| Born |
September 18, 1976 Rome, Italy |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Occupation | Film director, writer |
| Years active | 2005–present |
| Website | www |
Dario Baldi (born September 18, 1976) is an Italian film director, documentarian and writer.
Dario Baldi grew up in a family devoted to cinema. Marcello, his father, directed over 100 documentaries (such as “Italia K2”, about the 1954 conquest of K2) and more than 30 movies (e.g. Saul e David and other movies with a biblical subject). Dario immediately showed a natural attitude toward cinema, the set, and editing, playing in several different roles in movies since he was a child. Starting as editor (working with internationally known directors of both cinema and advertising, such as Robert Altman) he passed to directing music videos and commercials, to documentaries and, finally, to cinema.
Among the most relevant documentary activities was “Managers”, written and directed by Dario in 1998 using a small camera, which showed Roman homeless people’s lives. Dario also wrote and directed several short films that were awarded at European festivals. He also directed the movie “Pablo”, about Pablo Neruda’s life, an exercise of improvisation, shot in Neruda’s places and using non professional actors that he met along his journey following Neruda’s footsteps. As a result, the movie is a cinematographic opera in which common people such as a waiter, a fisherman’s son and others. While innovative and unique in its kind, Pablo is immediately welcomed with benevolence and, in a short lapse of time, the movie is presented at Montreal Festival, Los Angeles AFI Film Festival and in several other international exhibitions where it gets positive acknowledgments from the public and good reviews from Variety and New York Times. In 2008 “Pablo” was broadcast on some European channels, such as Swedish national television.
After a period in the USA, where he worked on the 2 fast 2 furious advertising campaign, Baldi moved to England where he lived and worked as a director for five years for Universal Music, BBC, Channel 4 and Turner, ranging from advertising to movies. He also worked in Russia, Thailand, Canada and several European countries, still continuing his cooperation with the above-mentioned subjects.
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