Carlo Cresto-Dina
Italy
Production
TFL
Decision Maker 2017
Decision Maker 2016
Decision Maker 2015
Decision Maker 2014
Decision Maker 2013
Decision Maker 2012
biography
Carlo Cresto-Dina is a film producer based in London and working in Italy and the UK .
In 1999 he started the documentary and short Film section of Fandango in Rome that produced a string of award-winning feature documentaries and debut films including I For India by S. Suri, which launched at Sundance International Competition.
Other titles include Super 8 Stories by E. Kusturica and Tickets directed by K. Loach, A. Kiarostami and E. Olmi.
In 2009 Carlo Cresto-Dina founded tempesta, based in London and Bologna.
The company’s first film Corpo Celeste, Alice Rohrwacher’s debut feature, premiered at Cannes 2011 and won several international awards including the “Ingmar Bergman Award for Best Debut Film”.
L’intervallo by Leonardo Di Costanzo premiered at Venice 2012 where it won the FIPRESCI International Award, and after Toronto, London, Lisboa was selected for the prestigious NY MoMA “New Directors New Films”.
Carlo Cresto-Dina’s production Le Meraviglie written and directed by Alice Rohrwacher, won the Gran Jury Award at Cannes Film Festival 2014.
Recent titles include "Donkey Flies" a family film directed by Paolo Tripodi and Marcello Fonte, "Fräulein" featuring Christian De Sica and Lucia Mascino written and directed by Caterina Carone, and "Pawn Street" written and directed by Irene Dionisio, which premiered at Venice Film Festival 2016.
Tempesta most recent film "L'intrusa" written and directed by Leonardo Di Costanzo premiered at Quinzaine des Realisateur Cannes 2017.
Tempesta's most recent production The Intruder written and directed by Leonardo Di Costanzo premiered at Cannes "Quinzaine des realisateurs" in 2017.
company profile
tempesta, fondata nel 2009, si è segnalata grazie a film di giovani autori, realizzati attraverso coproduzioni internazionali che hanno immediatamente guadagnato attenzione in tutto il mondo. Tra questi:
• Corpo Celeste opera d’esordio di Alice Rohrwacher, selezionata alla Quinzaine des Réalisateur alla 64ª edizione del Festival di Cannes;
• Le Meraviglie di Alice Rohrwacher distribuito in 24 paesi e vincitore del Grand Prix du Jury alla 67ª edizione del Festival di Cannes;
• L’Intervallo di Leonardo Di Costanzo vincitore di sette premi alla 69ª Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica Venezia;
• Asino Vola di Paolo Tripodi e Marcello Fonte, evento di chiusura in Piazza Grande del 68° Festival del Film di Locarno.