Director SKY 3D @ SKY
Company profile: Sky Italia is the first media company in Italy. It is part of Sky plc, Europe’s leading entertainment company with over 22 million customers across five countries: Italy, Germany, Austria, the UK and Ireland. Established in 2003, Sky Italia operates on different broadcasting platforms with different business models and has a 4.78 million-subscriber base (as of September 30, 2017). The pay subscription offer – which is the company’s core business available via satellite and IPTV – features the best viewing experience ever – thanks to My Sky HD, Sky on Demand and Sky Go – and the broadest range of exclusive content: from Sky’s home-grown productions to the best film titles, all the way to sport, news, entertainment, TV series and kids programs. 150 among thematic and pay per view channels, of which over 60 in HD and one entirely in 3D. The streaming service NOW TV offers a selection of the platform’s film, entertainment and sport content on NOW TV Box and on the main Internet-connected devices. Sky is also on the FTA DTT with three channels: TV8, Cielo, Sky TG24. Sky Italia CEO is Andrea Zappia.
Job Description: I am the responsible and the artistic director of the Sky theatrical productions on art, produced with the most innovative and advanced film technologies: 3D, 4K HDR and Virtual Reality 360°
Strand Profile: My work is focused on the creation, production and distribution of theatrical movies on Italian art realized with the most advanced film technologies, in order to experiment and emphasize the art experience through all the technology opportunities available. The last achievement in terms of most advanced technology put at the service of art is the Virtual Reality 360°.
Themes: Concerning to the Virtual Reality 360°, we have produced, with Untold Games and in collaboration with the Vatican Museums, the Sistine Chapel – an incredible virtual reality 360° experience on the occasion of the production of the art-movie Raphael – the Lord of the Arts. Together with Sky UK VR team we also produced the VR backstage of Raphael fiction scenes. On the occasion of the art-movie on St. Peter’s and the Basilicas we realized with FidoGroup and in collaboration with the Vatican Television Centre a VR APP moving through the four papal basilicas of Rome.
Main activities: My main activities are coproductions, commissions and distribution.
Please mention some latest titles that you have coproduced / scheduled and that you’re particularly proud of: Theatrical film-documentaries in 3D and 4K: Raphael, The Lord of the Arts, Florence and the Uffizi Gallery, St. Peter’s and the Basilicas of Rome, The Vatican Museums. VR productions: The Sistine Chapel, an Incredibile Virtual Reality Experience, St. Peter’s and the Basilicas of Rome.
What I’m mainly looking for at MIA DOC: coproductions and international distributions of our theatrical film-documentaries on Art in 4K and Virtual Reality.
