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Perpetuus: adjective (latin) - definition: perpetual, everlasting.
PERPETUUS is a film production company and event organizer based in Los Angeles (USA) and Ferrara (Italy). We are the founders of the Ferrara Film Festival, one of the fastest growing film festival in Europe, held in the UNESCO World Heritage City of Ferrara. With a network of stellar collaborators from all continents, our fantastic selection of team members range from award winning cinematographers, producers, writers, editors, music composers and special effects wizards. We work, or we worked with, world famous Companies and Organizations such as TECHNICOLOR, UNICEF, MARVEL, the U.S. EMBASSY IN ITALY, the CITY OF FERRARA and many more.
Over 500 press articles were written so far about projects involving Perpetuus, read the press coverage summary HERE.
PERPETUUS is a film production company and event organizer based in Los Angeles (USA) and Ferrara (Italy). We are the founders of the Ferrara Film Festival, one of the fastest growing film festival in Europe, held in the UNESCO World Heritage City of Ferrara. With a network of stellar collaborators from all continents, our fantastic selection of team members range from award winning cinematographers, producers, writers, editors, music composers and special effects wizards. We work, or we worked with, world famous Companies and Organizations such as TECHNICOLOR, UNICEF, MARVEL, the U.S. EMBASSY IN ITALY, the CITY OF FERRARA and many more.
Over 500 press articles were written so far about projects involving Perpetuus, read the press coverage summary HERE.
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THE "MAIN" TEAM
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MAXIMILIAN LAW (Founder and CEO)
Perpetuus Founder Maximilian Law is the Founder and Director of the Ferrara Film Festival, the fastest growing film festival in Italy and one of the fastest in the World, and the CEO of the production company Perpetuus Enterprises. He’s also a director, an actor, a showman, a producer and a screenwriter. At the OSCARS™ 2014 one of his films ("Tomorrow Will Be Another Day") was eligible and finalist at the Academy Awards in the "Best Live Action Short Film" category. With his previous production company, JustPressRec, which he co-founded in 2012, he produced more than 30 commercials all over the world, working with world famous brands like ARMANI, REDBULL and UPTIME, and developed many marketing strategies for companies in the U.S., Europe and Latin America. With the extensive experience on film and commercial sets, he started writing screenplays for feature and short films under the WGA (Writers Guilt of America). In 2012, at the age of 31, the second film he wrote ("Engage") was in the Official Selection for the Seattle Indiflix Film Festival and then sold to American national TV channels. The same deal was made for two more movies he produced the following year ("Tomorrow Will Be Another Day" and "The Painter"). As he kept exploring acting roles, he found himself very comfortable interpreting comedic characters, and from that moment he took himself very seriously in establishing his own brand. In 2015 he opened his new Production Company, "Perpetuus", specifically conceived to develop his own film projects. In September 2015 he officially founded the Ferrara Film Festival, one of the fastest growing festival in the World, where he’s also the artistic director since its first edition in 2016. |
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GIOVANNI MORICONI (Technical Director)
Giovanni Moriconi started working in the TV Industry in1984 as Editor of several important primetime TV shows. From 1994 to 2006 Giovanni joined Orbit Television, a fully digital Satellite TV, as Post Productions Supervisor. In 2017 he started a new chapter of his career with first Feature films such as " Hopeful Notes", "All You Can Dream", "Fiebre Salsera" as Editor. In 2016 Giovanni edited a new version of film "The Bronx Bull" with William Forsythe, Joe Mantegna and Tom Sizemore and has been on set as DIT and colorist adviser of film "9/11" by Martin Guigui, with Charlie Sheen and Whoopi Goldberg. In December 2016 he was Post Production Supervisor and Associate Producer of the Feature Film "In Vino" with Ed Asner and Sean Young. He is currently working as editor and colorist of film "The Test" and, as Post Production supervisor, on the film "Senior Entourage" with Ed Asner and Mark Rydel. |
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MASSIMO ZERI (Cinematographer)
Massimo Zeri, born in Rome, Italy, started shooting short films at the age of 12 with his father's 8mm camera. He was enrolled at the “Roberto Rossellini” Film School of Rome, where he graduated with a degree in camera techniques and cinematography. He began working as a cameraman for several television networks in Rome. But only after attending UCLA was he able to break into the motion pictures industry. He began working as camera assistant and operator for such renowned cinematographers and directors as Nestor Almendros, Jack Cardiff, Donald McAlpine, Vittorio Storaro, Luciano Tovoli, Vilmos Zsigmond, Bruce Beresford, Federico Fellini, Alberto Sordi, Paul Mazursky and Francis Ford Coppola. He's now a veteran cinematographer with over 30 years of experience. Massimo's credits includes “Tempest” starring John Cassavetes, Gena Rowlands, Susan Sarandon and Raul Julia; “Table for Five” starring Jon Voight, Richard Crenna and Molly Perkins; “King David” starring Richard Gere and “New York Stories” starring Giancarlo Giannini. His peers have welcomed him into the AIC, the Italian Association of Cinematographers, and IMAGO, the European Federation of Cinematographers. |
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MICHELANGELO FRISONI (Visual Effect Artist)
A digital compositor from ltaly with more than 5 years of experience in VFX collaborating on many productions all around ltaly, Los Angeles and Toronto. He recently worked for films such as "Resident Evil: the final chapter" and "XXX: The Return Of Xander Cage". In 2012 he started his VFX career in USA, directly collaborating with USA YouTube’s celebrities such as Freddie Wong for the “Video Game High School” web series, Mistery Guitar Man and other famous youtubers such as Lindsey Stirling, William Joseph and Mike Diva. In 2013 he started his ongoing collaboration with talented people from “Hive Division”, one of the most important Italian production and postproduction houses based in Veneto, Italy, creators of the “Metal Gear Solid: Philanthropy” series. With them, he worked as compositor and matchmover for the feature film called “Aurora”. His latest collaboration was for a video commissioned by “Ubisoft Italia” to sponsoring the new videogame “Rainbow Six: Siege”. From 2014 he worked as VFX Lead in more than 20 commercials, dealing with supervision, compositing and motion graphics for a production house based in Los Angeles, called "Feedback". |
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STEFANIA GRADARA (Legal Supervisor)
Stefania graduated in Law in 2011 at the University Of Ferrara and officially became a Lawyer in 2014. From 2011 until early 2017 she worked at the Paolo Scaglianti Law Firm in Ferrara, where she specialized in Criminal Law. She is now the Legal Supervisor of Perpetuus and Ferrara Film Festival. |
