italy Mar 2022

"Oplà is a tailor-made production house that achieves its objectives in a practical and methodical way.

Thanks to our deep passion for arts, photos, videos, digital imaging and 3D, we have expanded our business relationships and communication languages.

Our studio is fully equipped, and our talented team controls the entire workflow, focusing on the aspects that are important to find the best solution for every project and to speed up the production phase.

We handle your budget according to your needs, and raise sensitive issues from the beginning, to foresee any useless risks. Above all, we need to multitask, because being agile requires many skills.

We have collaborated with brands such as BMW, Lagostina, KFC, DB Bahn, Campari, Intimissimi, Loacker, Repower, Sky Italia, Intesa San Paolo Bank and Delonghi."

Sicily Productions is a full service Production Company based in Sicily and Sardinia. They execute and manage high-end productions for international clients - operating all over Italy. 

Over the last 19 years, Sicily Productions has worked with the world’s top brands and most talented creatives - providing the most unique and valuable service for each project, whether it’s large scale campaigns, editorials, commercial or film productions.  

Working with some of the greatest storytellers has taught them one thing: The difference between good and awesome, is the last 2%. “That’s what separates us from the rest"

2021-22 work include:

• ARMANI - Acqua di Gioia - Sicily- Shot by the creative duo Hunter & Gatti
• Jo Malone - Blossoms collection - Sardinia- Photographer Colin Dodgson & DOP Errol Rainey in Sardinia
• BOSS HOME  - Lombardia- Photographer Bastian Achard and DOP Julian Weber.
• BOLIA SS22 - Puglia- Shot by Photographer Anders Schønnemann
• MAISON MICHEL - Sicily- Photographer Arnaud Ele & DOP Justinas Milius
• Arma Lader SS22 - Sicily- Shot by Photographer Bilal El Kadhi
• ARKET SS22 - Sicily- Shot by the duo Tim Hill & James Finnigan 

Clients include: Heimat, H&M, Hugo Boss, Armani, Arket, Jo Malone, Zimmermann, Pandora, Dolce & Gabbana, Elle, Sabyasachi, Marie Claire, Lillian West, Beymen Club, Bolia, Bloomingdales, Cosmopolitan, Adidas, Daks, M&S and many more

Quotes can always be handled within 24 hours. For more information visit their website or call +39 347 688 1606

Contents Production has more than 20 years of experience and offers a solid and complete production support system for photographic and cinematographic services in Italy and worldwide.

"Our services range from acting as a local link to providing complete production services.

Contents Production offers scene photography, aerial photography, video productions and production coordination services in Rome and Italy. We have created a team of high quality professionals who reside in the centre (Tuscany: Florence, Siena; Emilia Romagna: Bologna; Lazio: Rome) and South Italy (Sicily: Palermo, Catania Agrigento; Puglia; Campania: Naples, Amalfi Coast; Sardinia; Basilicata: Matera).

Our complete project production and coordination service includes, but is not limited to, location scouting, art purchases, budget management, travel and accommodation planning, transportation, catering, location vehicles and photo/ video equipment rental, building construction and design and negotiation of contracts. We manage everything and we take care of all aspects of your whole production, so you don't have to worry at all!"

MM Productions is a team of dynamic and creative professionals based in Italy, who provide production services worldwide.

Logistics, equipment rental, location scouting, crew hiring, casting, catering, accommodation and transportation for photo, video and events are among its services. MM Productions also provides full live-streaming services everywhere for every need.

"Italy is now open again with low-risk, good weather and excellent prices for your production.

Imagine the best, we’ll take care of the rest!"

Scenari Production, a full service production company with more than 20 years of experience, is one of the leading Italian production companies offering enthusiastic production services for the advertising and fashion industries all across the country.

"Based in Sicily, we are ‘local’ in the Amalfi Coast, Rome, Apulia, Tuscany and Sardinia and have professional partners in Milan, Venice, Florence, Naples and in all the main Italian destinations. Our location database offers a quick visual prospective to understand the best areas to produce and create fashion and advertising stories.

Sicily locations and our Sicily productions are in these days a good destination for car commercial, fashion, advertising.

Proud to announce the publication of our first book, 'Island of Eternal Beauties', a trip around Sicily with Michael Roberts, author, photographer and friend."

"We are a local production service based in the Mediterranean island of Sardinia, Italy.

A team of passionate people who love working in the photo and film industry, we'll give you the best support with tailor-made budgets from the planning stage to final realisation.

We offer production services all over Italy especially in Sardinia, Sicily and Tuscany, with a stunning and incredible variety of locations.

Recent clients include IWC Schauffhausen, Orlebar Brown, Porsche, Vogue Arabia, EA7 Armani, Energetix Jewellery, Fashy Swimwear and Mac Jeans, as well as location services for Jaguar, Sunliving, the film 'New Neighbour’ and Stella McCartney.

Let’s talk about your project!"

"Schmid Productions is a unique service production company for shoots throughout the country. Our promise is that we will offer the most time and cost effective way to shoot in Italy.

In addition to our own beautiful town, we can organise film and photo shoots throughout Italy: modern towns, artistic areas, stunning seaside locations, idyllic countryside, up in the mountains with snow (365 days a year!), or historical places like Venice, Florence, Rome and Sicily.

We can provide complete production services for your projects, from smaller photo shoots to large-scale commercials and TV shows; whether you want to be in a studio or on location, plus any other production request you may have.

Highlights of our service offer include beautiful locations, all technical requirements, the very best Italian film crews, delicious catering and perfect accommodation, and the best local directors and photographers.

In the post lockdown sets we will have a "Covid-19 supervisor", full sanitisation of the set the day before, wireless equipment for remote viewing and all sanitising equipment including suits, masks, gloves and visors.

Try us out. Our multilingual staff will be delighted to team up with you for your next production in Italy."

"All of us are passing through an unexpected time but we love to believe that this is simply another challenge that we must face with our warmest smiles and a lot of hand sanitizer gel!"

With more than 15 years of experience in international productions, Lule Production is a full service company based in Italy. The company manages all aspects of a production, from the budgeting to a specific location scouting. Finding the best models for a shoot is also a speciality.

For each production, the company chooses only the best and most qualified professional freelancers, creating a team of professionals that works in unison.

A successful combination of advertising and fashion is its hallmark.

When travel restrictions, social distancing, and hygiene precautions reshape our industry, Etna Productions can handle different aspects of each production; from financing and co-production advice, cost containment, budgeting, and scheduling, to providing expertise in selecting appropriate locations.

"Despite Covid restrictions, 2021 was a successful year and we have been delighted to work with many professionals, among them:

• Uwe Koerner in stunning Puglia for German brand Madeleine
• Cassandra Rhodin and Ivo Vinuesa in Sicily for Swedish brand Mini Rodini.

Also, the Etna Productions Team has been involved in facilitating an episode of ZDF tv show 'Terra X: Continents' on Mount Etna and Catania, on air in spring 2022, and catalogue SS/2022 of French brand Verbaudet.

Besides Sicily, we focus on production locations throughout Liguria, including the Italian Riviera, alongside Puglia, and other iconic locations in Italy.

We are ready to handle any requirements for shooting in Italy, particularly in Sicily, Puglia, and Liguria. From locations to permits, from equipment to castings, from best restaurants to the most chill hotel, we get all our clients' needs covered.

To find out more about working with us, please contact us here or call Peppe at +39 347 354 9960."

Everything started in 1995 in an office in the center of Milan, the founders were brought together with a common vision: to make an agency of ultra-creative, unconventional, artists to present and represent to the global market.

Now Aura Photo Agency is one of the most active players in the world of fashion and advertising image and content creation with offices in Milan and London.

"Today, like yesterday, we only choose to represent the artists we love, without compromises. Aura Photo is a 360° degrees agency, a modern representative that can satisfy all the needs of the artist and the client.

We represent photographers of fashion, beauty, interiors, still life, portrait, reportage and lifestyle as well as stylists, video-makers, directors, hair & make-up artists, casting directors, CGI artists, set designers, art directors, directors of photography, post production studios and illustrators.

As producers we are always ready to accomplish every project, no matter how challenging, being an international fast-paced team who has gained a precious experience through more than 25 years on the field. We follow, manage and provide assistance on every aspect of the shooting, video or photo, from the initial estimate to the whole organisation logistics. Location scouting, casting direction, lights and digital equipment rental, vans, pick-ups and transport service, flights and accommodation, insurances, permits, post-production etc. until the final result is obtained, in time and on budget.

On top of this we also manage and produce since more than 10 years, e-commerce for top fashion brands. Since 2022 the agency also added its own 300 square meters full daylight studio in the heart of Savona district in Milan, equipped for any kind of shooting and production needs."

Luciano Consolini was born in the Ivory Coast and grew up in different countries (the Ivory Coast, Italy, France). He is an automotive and lifestyle commercial photographer and director. He shoots people, places and vehicles, combining the Italian style and creativity with a higher standard of perfection. Passion and perfection, this mix is the recipe behind every shoot and film.

Pursuing the image wherever it is found, he travels all around the world for his international clients and inspiration, constantly challenging himself.

With a journalist and graphic design background, he looks for the story behind every product and brand, and he narrates it through his vision.

He's very passionate about engines and photography. He is continuously investing in new equipment and new projects.

Camilla Camaglia is a beauty, fashion and portrait photographer based between Rome and Berlin, working freelance for beauty and fashion brands, companies, artists and magazines.

Camilla’s strengths are that she can create impactful and creative images that catch the viewer’s eye, yet at the same time she has a keen eye for detail, which allows her to work on a clean commercial image style.

One of Camilla’s latest works include photographing opera star Anna Netrebko for the cover, booklet and promotion of her new album “Amata dalle Tenebre”, commissioned by Universal Music Germany - Deutsche Grammophon.

She recently published editorials on the printed editions of L’Officiel Arabia and Gala Greece, and shot commercial beauty work for the latest campaign of K-Beauty brand Yepoda.

Her photography work has appeared on several magazines such as L’Officiel and Glamour, and she has worked for clients such as Universal Music, Glossybox and Kryolan to name a few.

Italy-based Alessandro Michelazzi Studio is focused on portrait, fashion and lifestyle photography.

"An important aspect in our work is the search for colour in the final composition of the images: colour as emotion, joy and strength, colour linked to the individuality and uniqueness of each person."

In recent years, alongside the use of the latest technologies such as interactive rendering, using real-time graphics engines (Unreal Engine), the studio has also returned to the manual skills of analog film shooting, development and printing techniques.

In the last years, Alessandro has worked for international brands such as IWC Schaffhausen, Montblanc, Google, OnePlus, Huawei, Oppo Mobile, John Varvatos, Hockerty, Pitti Immagine and the tourist board of the Friuli-Venezia-Giulia region in Italy.

"Based in Rome, Italy, I am an architectural photographer and also specialise in the creation of high quality 360 Virtual Tour.

I like to blend natural and artificial light; most of the spaces gives their best in a specific time of the year. Blending natural and artificial light we can get quite close to that magic moment.

I work mainly with marketing and communication agencies, luxury real estates, shipyards, interior designers, corporates and construction companies.

With my open personality and years of experience, I can guarantee smoothness in any type of assignment."

Roberto Pastrovicchio is an award-winning photographer living in Italy.

A deep passion for minimalism and advanced lighting skills allow him to create images that best suit the client’s brief - in the fields of food, still life, interiors, architecture and landscape photography.

He is at ease shooting high speed photography of hot Illy coffee splashing out of the cup in his studio, as well as shooting CGI backplates in gorgeous landscapes for clients like Maserati or Seat, always looking for contemporary and sharply defined aesthetics. Selected clients include Illy, Hilton Hotels, Conad, Fincantieri and Italesse.

For more information about Rob, visit his website and follow him on Instagram.

Marco Verna is a professional photo retoucher based in Italy. He has worked with international brands and photographers on advertising campaigns, editorial content, and portfolio pieces.

Marco believes that the only way to be great is to have great collaborators, so he is focused on improving a system that can make these relationships stronger. Through this approach, he has managed to focus his work, get better results for clients and find his creative niche.

Great collaborative art is a result of a great relationship and its secrets lie in communication. This is why Marco is determined to go to great lengths to make sure that the way creatives communicate is as efficient and as effective as possible. The value of a photograph lies in its message, that’s why defining the purpose of every image is essential. He believes his mission is to be the most valuable resource he can be in any stage of the process, be that consulting, retouching, or communication. 

Clients: Volkswagen, Mercedes AMG, Nike, Comedy Central, Netflix, Cupra, Renault, Jägermeister, Toyota, Persol, Fiat and KFC.

Contact Marco or connect with him directly on LinkedIn

Nonsololoft is a scouting location agency co-founded in 2008 based in Milan and specialised in corporate events, private events, press days, photo and video shooting, exhibitions, fashion shows, TV programmes, temporary and special projects.

"We are involved in research and location proposals of different sizes and types: industrial spaces, open spaces, showrooms, contemporary and period architecture, ateliers and unconventional spaces.

We have an online and offline archive of locations that is enriched and updated for a 360° offer both in Italy and abroad."

"We are Pachira Location, a location service based in Italy. We work all over the country and we are based both in Milan and Rome.

Since 2014 our mission is to always provide the right location at the best price for all our clients, this is why we continually look for new locations. This is also the reason why in our archive you can easily find the perfect location for commercials, stills, photoshoots, TV productions, films, music videos, press events, product launches and shoot-and-stay.

We are committed to provide a full and tailor-made service for every client and a trustworthy and long-lasting relationship with our location owners; in doing so our strength resides in the team; in fact we think that teamwork is essential to reach these targets.

Check out our website to see our latest works with some major production companies."

Full Movie is a new rental service based in Florence supplying light, grip and camera equipment. The team are dedicated to audiovisual productions with a focus on cinema, TV and advertising, documentary and music videos.

Full Movie was born out of the collaboration between three filmmakers and technicians; Giulio Aspettati, Lucas Berisso and David Lisi, as well as the Movieland group in Bologna with almost 30 years of experience in the field.

"We provide the passion, professionalism, and above all the competence of experts who handle film equipment daily, providing fitting solutions for all production needs."

A fully equipped studio for commercial and independent photo and film production is complemented by full service production support. The company also provides inspiring scenography and custom set design for cinematic and photo productions both for the theatrical stage and external locations, and can advise on the necessary equipment for any type of shoot.

Valeria Orlando is a beauty director, make-up artist and hair stylist with over 25 years of experience working for fashion, advertising, editorials and catwalk events.

Valeria is also the owner of vormakeup.com, with 11 points of sale located across Italy. You can download the new VORMAKEUP App (Google Play and Apple Store).

Eight V)Or Make-up Academies are located across Italy: Milan, Rome, Ostia, Naples, Salerno and Taranto. Valeria's goal is to open at least one V)Or Academy per region in Italy, and to make her products known throughout Europe, Russia, Asia and the US.

Valeria is based in Milan but travels throughout the world to locations including Rome, Berlin, Paris, and New York City. In February 2022, she was a key artist and sponsor with her V)Or Make-up at Milan Fashion Week.

Valeria speaks Italian, English, Spanish and Portuguese fluently. Honesty and passion are the distinctive elements of her approach, and she continually works on her professional development to improve her knowledge about new techniques in the cosmetic industry.

ModelManagement.com is a digital platform that connects models and creative industry professionals worldwide. Models can find jobs, while creatives can find models for their projects and connect with other professionals. 

The company, founded by Andreas von Estorff in 2009, is on a mission to create a digital driven modelling industry that is diverse, accessible and safe for everyone. 

Photographers, brands, casting directors, agencies, small businesses and production companies can post paid jobs, collaboration shoots, or other collaborations and source diverse models and talent in a direct way, from the best selection on the planet.

The platform has more than one million registered models worldwide and brands such as Nike, Desigual and Oysho have used ModelManagement.com for their projects.