Giancarlo Canavesio

Giancarlo Canavesio (born November 26, 1968) is an Italian film producer, investment banker, and entrepreneur. He is best known as founder and CEO of Mangusta Risk, Mangusta Productions and Mangu.tv. He has produced several award-winning feature films including The Living Wake, FIX, Being in the World, 2012 Time for Change, Starlet and Neurons to Nirvana. He's currently producing the soon to be released films Monogamy and Its Discontents and Weed the People.

Giancarlo Canavesio grew up in Jakarta, Brussels, Athens and Rome. He was an investment banker in London for 10 years, then an entrepreneur in the financial consultancy and real estate industries for another 10 years, notably as founder and CEO of Mangusta Risk in Rome.

In 2005, Giancarlo's friend, filmmaker Fabrizio Chiesa shot a short film “Beautiful Child” (loosely based on a Truman Capote’s novel) in his loft in TriBeCa. After production, Giancarlo formed Mangusta Productions, an independent production company based in New York City. He next produced a three-channel film on Meditation called “Sita” also by Chiesa, which premiered in Paris at Ora Ita Gallery.

Shortly after the creation of Mangusta Productions, Giancarlo produced the critically acclaimed feature films: “The Living Wake” by Sol Tryon with Jesse Eisenberg and Jim Gaffigan and “Fix” by Tao Ruspoli with Olivia Wilde and Shawn Andrews.

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