Piano Lessons: Renzo Piano and the Art of Building Lab
Muse Factory of Projects, 6×30 min, Italy, 2023
Renzo Piano as “professor”, 24 students from the Politecnico di Milano, tutors, and exceptional guests: this is the “Laboratorio Arte del Costruire” (The Art of Building Lab), a special course where the great master engages with young people on some of the most famous projects by the Renzo Piano Building Workshop to explore possible improvements. Six groups of students, six projects, six episodes of “Lezioni di Piano” (Piano Lessons). On Rai 5.
Deadly Engineering
SWR Media and Intermission Films for Discovery, 52 min, UK/US, S1 and S2, 2020 – 2021
Winner of Documentary Series Gold at the 2021 Telly Awards and Emmy nominated in 2020 and 2021.
Engineering failures are Icarus-like moments when our overreaching, greed and desire to conquer the impossible can cost not just reputations, but millions of dollars, the environment and lives. A documentary series based on archive films, produced in collaboration with Getty.
Prince Harry in Africa
Big Earth for ITV One, 50 min, UK, 2016
A documentary following HRH Prince Harry on his return to the African kingdom of Lesotho where he continues the work of Sentebale, the charity he established there a decade ago. Click here for reviews on The Guardian, Telegraph, The Sun. Directed by Russ Malkin for ITV One, prime time.
Chasing Mandela’s Rainbow
Contemporary Films, 86 min, UK, 2019
Life in Mandela’s South Africa has been an unrelenting struggle between utopian hope – and painful reality. Three school students, aided by their teachers, want to join the success story this country was meant to become, post-Apartheid. They strive for recognition, dream of their place within a society, meant to work for all. Their dissimilar backgrounds and battles illustrate why Mandela’s vision never materialised and is still, a haunting and illusive rainbow.