Francesco Carrozzini: Biography and Career

One of the best-known directors to date is Francesco Carrozzini. Young and talented, he released about a dozen short films, which were presented at various film festivals.

Francesco Carrozzini. Biography

September 9, 1982 in Italy in the provincial city of Monza (suburb of Milan) was born Francesco Carrozzini. Biography of little Francesco is not too great, today little is known. Father was the chief editor of Vogue. His mother, Franca Sozzani, who wrote several books about fashion, was the owner of awards in the field of art.

Francesco Carrozzini from childhood was surrounded by musicians, artists and actors. As a teenager, he and his comrades began to shoot their first short films. Francesco was so carried away by the direction that in 1999 he moved to Los Angeles to study directing at the University of California. Then Carrozzini returned to Milan and studied philosophy at the university. After a while, the young man went to New York, where he is now.

Francesco had an affair with singer Lana Del Rey. For the first time in public they were seen in the summer of 2014. According to the media, the couple broke up, but there were no official statements about the dissolution of the relationship.

Career

Francesco Carrozzini acts not only as a director, but also as a producer and cameraman. On his account, fourteen films, among them thirteen shorts and one documentary called "Frank. Chaos and creativity ». The film tells about Francesco's mother Francesco Sozzani, about how she built her career and fought for the rights of African women. Attention is also paid to the relationship between Sozzani and his son, who produced and directed this picture. It took four years to make the film, during which time a lot of material was collected: photographs, interviews, video. According to themselves Соццани and Каррозини, during work on a film they have learned much.

And his first task Francesco Carrozzini received at nineteen years from the Italian MTV. Then orders from advertising agencies followed, and in 2006 the young director started filming a documentary about the Polish theater "Virzalin".

I shot a video for the New York Times, which featured such famous actresses as Natalie Portman and Charlize Theron. After a while at the Venice Film Festival, his short psychological thriller "1937" was presented. At the same festival, the above-described film about Frank was also presented, which will also be screened in Mumbai, Vancouver and Tallinn. Francesco himself said that he is currently working on a second film, which is an artistic film.

The photo

As photographer Francesco Carrozzini has established himself in Esquire, Rolling Stone, Vogue, Vanity Fair, The Wall Street Journal and other publications.

Remarkably proved himself in the portrait genre, he organized his own photo exhibitions in May 2007 and 2010, also in May and September 2015. Francesco worked with stars such as Angelina Jolie, Cate Blanchett, Robert De Niro, Scarlett Johansson and Milla Jovovich, as well as politicians like Goodluck Jonathan, Tony Blair, Michael Bloomberg and others. In an interview Francesco said that he took up photography by accident. It was just a fad. We hope that Francesco will become even more famous in the field of cinematography and photography.