Italian Looking for Intern Placement in South Africa

Franco Consales
Director and videomaker
T: +39 328 4188963
franco.consales@gmail.com
www.francoconsales.com
Address and references available upon request

PROFILE
Shooting producer director with experience of producing long and short social video

EXPERIENCE
Director of Videostories / Italy / 2010 to present. Planning, writing, shooting, editing,
directing, selling touristic and promotional short videos. www.videostories.org.

Director “Karamoja cocktail” / Uganda and Italy / Ombre nel Mondo Production / 2009 – 2011. Anthropological, economic and social documentary research within a tribe that is
doomed to live with daily food from the Woof Food Programme.

Specialist in Digital Video / United Nation Volunteer, Ministry of Education Botswana / 2009 - 2010. Assisted lecturers and students of Multimedia course. Gave technical support on creation of videos (how to write a script, how to make shootings, how to edit).

Director “Video to raise awareness of recycling for pupils in primary and secondary schools” / Italy / 2009 / Ato Production. A docufiction for children about theme of the differentiation of the waste.

Camera Operator “The Trap / Italy / 2009. The documentary is a testimony of the tragic
story of political refugees: Refugees claim that their rights are recognized.

Director “Indifferenza” / Italy / 2008. Waste and illegal dumps. Creative history of the
fascinating world of waste and landfill.

Director “A school of hospitality: the certainty of your future” / Italy / 2007. Video /
creative promotional documentary for the revival of the Institute. Interviews with teachers
and students, took the life of the highlights of the institute

Director “Everything for passion” / Italy / 2007. What and who is behind a procession so
old? and why so many young people are involved? The faces and stories of those who
annually organizes the most important event in the city.

Co-director “Mifugo ni Mali” (Herd is richness) / Tanzania and Italy / 2006. A leader tells Maasai rituals, traditions, social and political organization of a Tanzanian Maasai tribe.

Director “Burmese smiles” / Myanmar and Italy / 2005. It is the story of a wonderful trip in one of the most beautiful countries in the world with one of the most ruthless dictatorships.

Co-director “The handbook of the young zombie” / Italy / 2004. Before, during and after long months of coma.

EDUCATION
Postgraduate Master Degree in Multimedia Publishing and Digital Communication - Polytechnic of Milan, 2000 - 2001, Milan (Italy)
Bachelor Degree in Communication Science - University of Salerno, 1993 - 1999
Scholarships: Erasmus Programme (European Region Action Scheme for the Mobility of
University Students) in the University of Salamanca, 1996 – 1997

TRAINING
Course in Documentary Film Production at Civic School of Milan “Milan Cinema
Television”, 2004

Workshop in documentary direction, Organized by Association Griò. Master class with
Enrica Colusso, teacher of cinema and documentary production and director of
documentaries, Bologna, Italy, 28/29 november 2008

Seminar “Production of creative documentary”, Organized by Holden School of Turin
and Documentary in Europe,Turin, Italy, 2007.

LANGUAGES
Fluent English and Spanish. Italian Mother Tongue.

SKILLS
Video journalism / documentary making: Reporting, Researching, Interviewing, Shooting
(Camera operator), Editing, Making final dvd

Web and graphic designing: Designing layout for web sites, Designing logos, Designing of
brochures and posters, Customozing of CMS (Joomla), Using of My Sql server,
myPhPAdmin, Creating animations with Adobe Flash

Software: Ms Word, Excel, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Adobe Flash, After Effects,
Final Cut, Sound Trackpro, DVD Studio Pro.