Stefano Tealdi

STEFANO TEALDI,
Producer/Director
Born in 1955, Johannesburg (South Africa), Italian nationality
English mother tongue, living in Italy since 1970. Spoken French and Spanish.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1984-2004 Founds and directs STEFILM, an independent audiovisual production company in Italy
1986-1996 Head of audiovisual production, Faculty of Architecture - Politecnico di Torino
FILM PRODUCTION
2005 As Head of Development is developing projects and series for the international documentary market.
2001- 2005 Executive production:
MY THREE PEAKS directed by Andreas Pichler, with Pale Blu Prod. and Carousel in association with
Arte France, ORF, YLE FST, RER (Austria).
GELATO: AN ENDLESS PASSION directed by Susan Gray with Pierrot e la Rosa and MA.JA.DE Films
Avro, NDR/Arte in assoc. with DR, RTBF, RTV, RTBF, SABC, SBS, SVT, TV Ontario, YLE Teema.
CITIZEN BERLUSCONI directed by Susan Gray, with Thirteen/WNET, YLE Teema, in association with
DR, RTBF, NRK, SVT, VRT, VPRO
CRUMBLING HOUSES by Gianni Celati, in co-production with ZDF/Arte and YLE Teema
RICE GIRLS by Matteo Bellizzi, in co-production with YLE TV 1 and Teema
ALL IN WHITE by Adonella Marena in co-production with MA.JA.DE and ZDF/ARTE
LEONARDO DA VINCI: THE MAN BEHIND THE SHROUD? by Susan Gray, in co-production with
National Geographic Channels International and Hit Entertainment
PORTO MARGHERA – VENICE: THE STORY OF A LETHAL DECEPTION by Paolo Bonaldi, in coproduction with SRG SSR idée suisse, TSI, ARTE, BR, RTBF, MEDIA
SONG ON A NARROW PATH - STORIES FROM JERUSALEM by Akram Safadi in co-production with
BR, RTBF, in association with TELE+, SOROS FOUNDATION, DDC, MEDIA
MIRABELLA/SINDELFINGEN, RETURN TICKET TO GERMANY by Andreas Pichler in co-production
with Filmtank (D), Angel Film (DK), 3SAT (D), Planète (F), Danish Film Institute (DK).
2000 Associate producer on EUtopia for BBC, ARTE and others.
1999
Directs TOUGHER THAN THE REST, 56min documentary on Eritrea.
1988-1997 With Stefilm directs and produces 36 documentaries and a short fiction, amongst which:
ERITREA: THE RED LAND (26’); FRONTE POLISARIO (2x20’); IMAGEN MADRID (28’);
THE MONSTER AT SCHOOL (26’)
1993
Head of production: INFORMATICA; 80 X 60 min. for RAI/Consorzio Nettuno
Production manager: ZANZIBAR, HYPERMEDIA RELIEF OF THE STONE TOWN
1993 experimental interactive multimedia for Politecnico di Torino
1992
Assistant director of INCONTRO AI GIORNI, a 35mm. feature fiction film
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
1998-2005
1996-2005
1998-2001
1993-1997
1997
TEACHING
2001-2005
Shopsteward and National Coordinator of INPUT, Television in the Public Interest
Coordinates the international workshop Documentary in Europe
Chairman of the European Documentary Network (EDN)
Founds the F.E.R.T. (Filming with a European Regarde in Turin) Association together with Av
Aand MM producers, authors, technicians.
Vice president of the C.A.M., a grouping of Av and MM production companies
Master of AV Editing and Script (Documentary scriptwriting), COREP (Politecnico di Torino) and Virtual
Reality & Multi Media Park S.p.a.
2003-2005 Facolty of Architetture, Politecnico di Torino (Cinema, Photography and Television; Immage and
Progect)
1999-2005
1999-2001
1996
1990-1994
Short training courses on documentary financing and production for various institutions: Pompeu-Fabra
Univ. in Barcelona; Zelig School of Documentary, Cinema and New Media; Bolzano, Medialmente,
Milano; EAVE, Malta; IDFA – Amsterdam; DISCOVERY CAMPUS – Belfast; EUR/EBU – Cairo; EDN
workshops in Thessaloniki, Lisbon, Riga, Barcelona, Bornholm, Sofia, Moscow, Rio de Janeiro, London,
Jihlava, Thalinn, Kolkata, Malaga, Prague.
Seminar – Documentary Cinema: project and production - DAMS, University of Torino.
Conducts workshop on Communication, Multimedia and WWW for the ‘Training course on Mutirao’ at the
Escola Politecnica de Universidad de San Paolo, Brasil
Assistant on ‘Technologies and methods of visual communication’ at the Faculty of Architecture,
Politecnico di Torino
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
1992
1987
1986
Graduates at the EAVE-Europe of the MEDIA programme
Training on documentary making: stage directed by Jean Rouch on the film ENIGMA
Graduates with a Master Degree in Architecture at the Politecnico di Torino
Stefano Tealdi,
Stefilm
Via L. Berthollet, 44
10125 Torino, Italy
T: +39 011 6680017 F: +39 011 6680003
www.stefilm.it
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