The IAB is very pleased to welcome international visualiser, storyboard artist and designer Giuseppe Cristiano.
Giuseppe will be at the IAB on February 11th delivering a Masterclass in “Visualising the Performance” as part of the MA Acting Programme. On February 12th, he will be protagonist of a cross-programme Q&A with the students of the different BA programmes. He will also be joined on this special occasion by some students of El Plató del Cinema Film School.
About the guest: Giuseppe Cristiano is one of the most important and famous visualisers and storyboard artists internationally. He has worked all over the world for more than twenty years. He collaborates with many advertising agencies, but his experience also includes films, live performing arts, theatre, dance, music, animation and games. With his storyboards he has participated at the music video production for Radiohead, Madonna, Moby, Roxette and many others with pioneering directors like Jonas Ă…kerlund and Johan Renck. He has worked with prestigious DoP like Hoyte Van Hoytema (director of photography for “Insterstellar”, “Her”, “The Fighter”), as well as on the TV series “CSI: NY” and “Six Feet Under”, on the fantasy tabletop role-playing game “Dungeons & Dragons”. In videogames he has produced the storyboards for “Mad Max: Fury Road” – based on George Miller’s movie – the recent “Spider-Man” and “The Walking Dead”. He has collaborated with thousands of individuals for advertising, such as “The Epic Split”, the Volvo commercial with Jean Claude Van Damme, and the Evian’s Spider-Man spot.
In 1998 he opened a storyboard school in Stockholm. Since that year, he has published eight manuals in English, Chinese, French, German, Italian and Swedish, some of which are still being used in Universities and film schools worldwide. Among his books the seminal The Storyboard Artist, released in 2011 in the United States.
In 2019, his art has been the subject of the film documentary “Giuseppe Cristiano Storyboard Artist” directed by Vittorio Menconi.
In 2020, he published the graphic novel “2:40:1”, as a part of a wider inter media project.
The Masterclass has been organised by Armando Rotondi, Programme Leader of the IAB MA Acting programme, in partnership with INIT – International Network of Italian Theatres and El PlatĂł del Cinema.
