Lele Riva
Lele Riva
Started very young (18), with the making of for important Milan production companies on high budget advertising productions. For a certain period, I worked as assistance at Motion Control for the special effects society Plinko Password, with whom I participated to the making of some scenes for the movie Alien VS Predator , directed by Paul W.S. Anderson, more precisely in the visual effect team, under the supervision of the special effects manager and director John Bruno. With the motion control I worked on several commercials, among which: Bmw, Nissan and more. I worked as editor and operator on a special effect pre- visualizer (cockpit video assist), created by a Turin society that, besides other commercials and "film jobs, entrusted to me the "first training courses in Milan. In the first years , I’ve worked alongside one of the best Italian production managers, Angelo Meroni , as Production Assistant and Location Manager on many Italian and international commercials production. As first or second assistant director, I’ve been lucky to work closely with great directors such as: Giuseppe Tornatore, Fabrice Carazò, Luca Lucini, Alessandra Pescetta and more... I’ve been working with the societies WELCOMEMEDIA and ADV2.0 as director and creative , at the production of commercials, music videos, tv format , corporate, in addition to following the creative direction on several communication projects or commercials campaigns. I’ve always had a great passion for editing, which I consider one of the most important and fun parts of my job. I love creating writing, and independently from the product, I like to work on projects that revolve around an idea. PRINCIPAL WORK EXPERIENCES: direction , creative& art directions, assistant director, editing, special effects, creative content writing, production assistant, location manager, photographer. Advertising commercials, documentaries, film productions, Tv format, fashion show, corporate video, photo shooting ...