Adrian Picardi
Encyclopedia
Adrian Picardi is a bi-racial "Italian-Korean" American filmmaker based in Los Angeles
, California. For all his works thus far, he has been credited as director
, writer
, cinematographer
, and editor
. He got his start in the industry by independently creating original projects that utilized extremely low budgets, yet made them extremely commercially appealing in the visual sense. He shoots and produces many of his films in Los Angeles
, California. Picardi graduated from South Pasadena High School in 2005. Currently, Picardi is working on several projects for his company, Northern Five Entertainment, based in Downtown Los Angeles
.
in 2006 at the age of 19 and jumped into the industry as an editor for Television. Along with his full-time job, he also began editing numerous music videos that have aired on networks such as MTV
before the age of 20. Picardi continued to pursue his directing career by independently producing his own projects. Many of his personal projects were geared towards online contests and earned him a story in the Los Angeles Times
, about how someone at the age of 19 could make more than $23,000 off the internet alone.
In 2007, Picardi created a short film called “His Day to Remember,” which was the Grand Prize Winner in the Cinematic Film2Music online competition. Using the raw, percussive chant-driven track "Steel & Sky," he created a visually compelling drama about a young man who is apparently a suicide bomber. His winnings included a $10,000 cash prize and a meeting with Paradigm agent Ken Greenblatt. The film was also screened at the Sundance Film Festival
2007 and got him featured on MTVu.com as "Best Filmmaker on Campus" in December 2007. Additionally, In 2007, he won the "Audience Award" for Myspace's John Woo
Film Tribute contest for the Chow Yun-fat
videogame "Stranglehold". For his second short, "His Final Hit", it placed into the top ten finalists of the IFC Film "Assassin's Creed" Film Contest.
Soon after, Picardi and his team created a low budget web series called “The Resistance” which started off as 4 short online teasers featured on YouTube
. Before filming the actual web show, the series was picked up by Sam Raimi
’s Ghost House Pictures and Starz Media, after executives at Starz and Ghost House viewed "The Resistance" teasers online. The web show airs on October 4, 2010, on the SyFy
channel as a one hour television pilot along with being released in its original 8 episodic form on iTunes
, Xbox Live
, and the Playstation Network.
"The Resistance" is Executive Produced by Ben Ketai
, Scott Bayless, Scott Rogers, with producers Aaron Lam, Eric Ro, and Associate Producer Don Le
.
The pilot will reportedly make history, as it's the first time a series created originally for the web will first premiere on television.
In late 2008, Picardi teamed up with entrepreneur, Scott Bayless, and Producer, Eric Ro
, to create a production company based in Downtown Los Angeles
, called Northern Five Entertainment. Recently, Picardi won the Universal Music
/ Decca Records
online music video contest hosted by Talenthouse, for the band ERA, .
He also took home the Grand Prize award for the New York Times
best-selling author Scott Sigler
’s "Ancestor" film contest. Under Northern Five, he also wrapped two more music videos, one for the band Automatic Love Letter and Sony Music Entertainment
/ Epic Records
, and another for the band Evans Blue.
Currently, Picardi and Northern Five Entertainment have 2 feature films in development, alongside production of numerous commercials and music videos to come.
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
, California. For all his works thus far, he has been credited as director
Film director
A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...
, writer
Writer
A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....
, cinematographer
Cinematographer
A cinematographer is one photographing with a motion picture camera . The title is generally equivalent to director of photography , used to designate a chief over the camera and lighting crews working on a film, responsible for achieving artistic and technical decisions related to the image...
, and editor
Film editing
Film editing is part of the creative post-production process of filmmaking. It involves the selection and combining of shots into sequences, and ultimately creating a finished motion picture. It is an art of storytelling...
. He got his start in the industry by independently creating original projects that utilized extremely low budgets, yet made them extremely commercially appealing in the visual sense. He shoots and produces many of his films in Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
, California. Picardi graduated from South Pasadena High School in 2005. Currently, Picardi is working on several projects for his company, Northern Five Entertainment, based in Downtown Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
.
Career
Picardi graduated from the Los Angeles Film SchoolLos Angeles Film School
The Los Angeles Film School or LA Film School is a private, for-profit college geared toward the entertainment industry. It offers associate's degrees in Computer Animation, Game Production and Film.-History:...
in 2006 at the age of 19 and jumped into the industry as an editor for Television. Along with his full-time job, he also began editing numerous music videos that have aired on networks such as MTV
MTV
MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....
before the age of 20. Picardi continued to pursue his directing career by independently producing his own projects. Many of his personal projects were geared towards online contests and earned him a story in the Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California, since 1881. It was the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in circulation in the United States in 2008 and the fourth most widely distributed newspaper in the country....
, about how someone at the age of 19 could make more than $23,000 off the internet alone.
In 2007, Picardi created a short film called “His Day to Remember,” which was the Grand Prize Winner in the Cinematic Film2Music online competition. Using the raw, percussive chant-driven track "Steel & Sky," he created a visually compelling drama about a young man who is apparently a suicide bomber. His winnings included a $10,000 cash prize and a meeting with Paradigm agent Ken Greenblatt. The film was also screened at the Sundance Film Festival
Sundance Film Festival
The Sundance Film Festival is a film festival that takes place annually in Utah, in the United States. It is the largest independent cinema festival in the United States. Held in January in Park City, Salt Lake City, and Ogden, as well as at the Sundance Resort, the festival is a showcase for new...
2007 and got him featured on MTVu.com as "Best Filmmaker on Campus" in December 2007. Additionally, In 2007, he won the "Audience Award" for Myspace's John Woo
John Woo
John Woo Yu-Sen SBS is a Hong Kong-based film director and producer. Recognized for his stylised films of highly choreographed action sequences, Mexican standoffs, and use of slow-motion, Woo has directed several notable Hong Kong action films, among them, A Better Tomorrow, The Killer, Hard...
Film Tribute contest for the Chow Yun-fat
Chow Yun-Fat
Chow Yun-fat, SBS is an actor from Hong Kong. He is best known in Asia for his collaboration with filmmaker John Woo in heroic bloodshed genre films A Better Tomorrow, The Killer, and Hard Boiled; and to the West for his role as Li Mu-bai in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon...
videogame "Stranglehold". For his second short, "His Final Hit", it placed into the top ten finalists of the IFC Film "Assassin's Creed" Film Contest.
Soon after, Picardi and his team created a low budget web series called “The Resistance” which started off as 4 short online teasers featured on YouTube
YouTube
YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....
. Before filming the actual web show, the series was picked up by Sam Raimi
Sam Raimi
Samuel Marshall "Sam" Raimi is an American film director, producer, actor and writer. He is best known for directing cult horror films like the Evil Dead series, Darkman and Drag Me to Hell, as well as the blockbuster Spider-Man films and the producer of the successful TV series Hercules: The...
’s Ghost House Pictures and Starz Media, after executives at Starz and Ghost House viewed "The Resistance" teasers online. The web show airs on October 4, 2010, on the SyFy
Syfy
Syfy , formerly known as the Sci-Fi Channel and SCI FI, is an American cable television channel featuring science fiction, supernatural, fantasy, reality, paranormal, wrestling, and horror programming. Launched on September 24, 1992, it is part of the entertainment conglomerate NBCUniversal, a...
channel as a one hour television pilot along with being released in its original 8 episodic form on iTunes
ITunes
iTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad....
, Xbox Live
Xbox Live
Xbox Live is an online multiplayer gaming and digital media delivery service created and operated by Microsoft Corporation. It is currently the only online gaming service on consoles that charges users a fee to play multiplayer gaming. It was first made available to the Xbox system in 2002...
, and the Playstation Network.
"The Resistance" is Executive Produced by Ben Ketai
Ben Ketai
Ben Ketai is an American film director, writer, and producer. He directed and wrote the following Ghost House Pictures productions: the upcoming feature film 30 Days of Night: Dark Days and the webseries 30 Days of Night: Dust to Dust....
, Scott Bayless, Scott Rogers, with producers Aaron Lam, Eric Ro, and Associate Producer Don Le
Don Le
Don Pham Le is an American filmmaker, who started out dabbling in acting. He was featured as one of Hilary Swank's main students in the 2007 Paramount Pictures film, Freedom Writers....
.
The pilot will reportedly make history, as it's the first time a series created originally for the web will first premiere on television.
In late 2008, Picardi teamed up with entrepreneur, Scott Bayless, and Producer, Eric Ro
Eric Ro
Eric Ro is a "Korean" American film producer based in Los Angeles, California. He shoots and produces many of his projects in Los Angeles, California...
, to create a production company based in Downtown Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
, called Northern Five Entertainment. Recently, Picardi won the Universal Music
Universal Music Group
Universal Music Group is an American music group, the largest of the "big four" record companies by its commanding market share and its multitude of global operations...
/ Decca Records
Decca Records
Decca Records began as a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis. Its U.S. label was established in late 1934; however, owing to World War II, the link with the British company was broken for several decades....
online music video contest hosted by Talenthouse, for the band ERA, .
He also took home the Grand Prize award for the New York Times
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
best-selling author Scott Sigler
Scott Sigler
Scott Carl Sigler is a contemporary American author of science fiction and horror as well as an avid podcaster. Originally from Michigan he now resides in San Francisco, California with his wife and their dog, Emma.-Biography:...
’s "Ancestor" film contest. Under Northern Five, he also wrapped two more music videos, one for the band Automatic Love Letter and Sony Music Entertainment
Sony Music Entertainment
Sony Music Entertainment ' is the second-largest global recorded music company of the "big four" record companies and is controlled by Sony Corporation of America, the United States subsidiary of Japan's Sony Corporation....
/ Epic Records
Epic Records
Epic Records is an American record label, owned by Sony Music Entertainment. Though it was originally conceived as a jazz imprint, it has since expanded to represent various genres. L.A...
, and another for the band Evans Blue.
Currently, Picardi and Northern Five Entertainment have 2 feature films in development, alongside production of numerous commercials and music videos to come.
External links
- Official "The Resistance" Series Website
- The Resistance Series on Youtube!
- Company Site
- Talenthouse Profile
- Youtube
Filmography
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | His Day To Remember | Director, Writer, Cinematographer, Editor | |
| 2007 | His Final Fight (John Woo Stranglehold game contest “Audience Award” winner) | Director, Writer, Cinematographer, Editor | |
| 2007 | His Final Hit (Top 10 Finalist in IFC “Assassin’s Creed” Contest) | Director, Writer, Cinematographer, Editor | |
| 2009 | "Makeup Smeared Eyes" music video > Automatic Love Letter | Director, Writer, Cinematographer, Editor | |
| 2010 | "Erase My Scars" music video > Evans Blue | Director, Writer, Cinematographer, Editor | |
| 2010 | "The Resistance Series" | Director, Writer, Cinematographer, Editor | |