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MAX NARDARI (Paua, 26 december 1976) is a director, screenwriter, producer, songwriter and composer.
He was born in Padua, Italy. He would later get his master's degree at the DAMS in Bologna with a dissertation on narrative techniques in the movies of the international director Pedro Almodovar.
He then moved to Rome and got a diploma as a cinema director at the University of Cinecittà and screenwriting at the RAI. His career began with the alternation between film making and songwriting, writing and shooting music videos for many Italian artists such as Raf, Fabrizio Moro, Chiara Iezzi, Andrea Mirò, Luisa Corna, Simonetta Spiri as well as international artists as Jacynthe Millette_Bilodeau and Lean.
In 2003 he created his own studio company, Reset Production, with which he produced and directed several films: short movies, documentaries, music videos, and commercials for Rai, Rai Cinema and RAI Play, among these in 2010 Lui e l'altro, one of the first works starring the international star Alessandro Borghi with Giorgia Würth, Ivan Bacchi e Francesco Bauco.
In 2015 Nardari directed his first full-length movie, co-produced by two Italian and two Russian studio companies. The film is released in Russia in March 2017 with 470 copies. Paradise productions distributed it with the title Liubov Pret-a-Portè. In the cast, Giancarlo Giannini, Alessandro Borghi, Nino Frassica, Paolo Conticini, Andrea Preti, Tosca D'Aquino, Olga Pogodina e Larisa Udovichenko.
The film was released on March 2, 2017 with Paradise distribution in 470 theaters and at the premiere, at the cinema Каро 11 Октябрь, with the presence of 4000 people.
The Italian version with the title “Di tutti i colori” (Of all colors) is released to cinemas in July of 2019 with Whale Pictures.
In Italy, the movie is awarded the Love Film Festival of Perugia 2019 for the Best Director and the Terra di Siena Film Festival as the Best Comedy of 2019.
Abroad, the film is the finalist of the Global Cinema Festival at Siliguri in West Bengal, and the Festival International pour le Cinèma Casablanca.
In 2016 Nardari wrote, directed, and produced the comedy “La Mia Famiglia a Soqquadro”, which is released in April 2017 in the cinema circuits The Space and Uci, distributed by Europictures. In the cast, Marco Cocci, Bianca Nappi, Gabriele Caprio, Eleonora Giorgi, Elisabetta Pellini, Elisa Di Eusanio e Ninni Bruschetta. The international premiere was July of 2016 at the Tokyo Festival, and the film was the only Italian movie amongst the finalists with the international title “The Family Jumble”.
The film was sold and distributed in many Asian countries and on the UK Spafax Airlines by the German vendors' Medialuna. On television, the film got a 20% average TV viewing share within the first night on RSI, the most important Swiss channel, and on 7 september 2021 was released on RAI 1. Simultaneously, starting from May 2020, the movie has a global audience on Amazon Prime Video.
In 2017, Nardari wrote, directed, and produced the movie “Uno di Noi”, broadcasted as a preview on Rai 1. The movie received a 10% average TV viewing share. In the cast: Euridice Axen and Simone Montedoro.
In September 2018, during the 75ª edition of the International Film Festival of Venezia, Max was awarded the Premio Leone di Vetro as Best Director and as Venetian prestigious personality.
On September 9th 2020 it premieres the music video “Fragile”, during the 75ª edition of the International Film Festival of Venezia. The music video, directed by Max Nardari and Emiliano Leone is about the planet's environmental matter after the Coronavirus Pandemic. The music video won various international awards including the Cannes Film Festival 2022, The Andromeda Film Festival 2020 in Turkey and the Resistance International Film Festival in Iran.
In 2021 Nardari wrote, directed, and produced the comedy “Diversamente”, released on May 18 2021 exclusively on Amazon Prime Video. In the cast: Alessandro Borghi, Michela Andreozzi, Claudia Zanella, Giancarlo Magalli , Caterina Misasi, Simone Montedoro, Euridice Axen, Fioretta Mari and Denny Méndez. The movie is awarded the Social Film Festival Artelesia 2021 for the Best Film and the Cilento International Film Festival 2022 as
Best Italian Comedy.
On 15 June 2022 Nardari wrote the motivational and partly autobiographical book “Meglio fare 100 cose bene che una male” edited by Bookness. The book boasts the preface of the actress Daniela Poggi and the international mental coach Roberto Re.
On September 6th 2022 it premieres the short movie “Ritorno al presente”, during the 79ª edition of the International Film Festival of Venezia. The short movie won 15 awards around the world, among which The Chicago Comedy Reel 2022 as Best Actress and Best International Short Film and the Premio Leone di Vetro at the International Film Festival of Venezia. In the cast: Daniela Poggi, Attilio Fontana and Clizia Fornasier.
On March 6 th 2023 the short film released on Amazon prime Video worldwide.