Irene Maffei is an award winning freelance director, with a wide portfolio of internationally acclaimed music videos and short films. View her showreel, films, filmography and contact information below. She was born in Italy and is currently working in London.

For professional enquiries, please email: irenemaffei@yahoo.it


- SHOWREEL -

Music video and film directing showreel 2007 by Irene Maffei.


- "TRE" Award Winning Short Film by Irene Maffei -

(23 mins) The parallel stories of three feminine chracters with different lives but with the same face. during one night some events push them to doubt about all of their life choices. Italian with english subtitles.
Awards for TRE:

“Best International Women Interest” at the New York Independent Film and Video Festival 2007; “Best Thriller-noir” at the festival “Il corto.. in genere” 2006, Castel San Pietro Terme, Bologna, Italy.

Nominations:

Finalist at the TV competition “La 25a ora” 2006, broadcasted by the Italian TV channel La7, and at the “Mitreo International Film Festival” (Italy 2006).

Official selections;

Los Angeles International Shortfilm Festival 2006, USA, “Akab Short Movie Festival”, “Murgia Film Festival”, Euganeamoviemovement”, ”DAMS Film Festival Cuneo”, “Cinemadamare” (Italy 2006).



CONTACT EMAIL: irenemaffei@yahoo.it

Irene always welcomes enquiries about her work on the email address above.

FILMOGRAPHY

(Showreel available on www.youtube.com/irenemaffei)

2006: Director and writer of the shortfilm “Tre”; awards:

2005: Director and writer of the music video “Save me” for the band Eldritch, edit by Limb Music, broadcasted by MTV, All Music and Rock Tv; award as best music video at the Orvieto Festival 2006, Italy.

Director and writer of the shortfilm “La seconde peau”, Paris.

Director of the music video Sospeso, for the band Koinè, Bologna.

2003: Director, writer and producer of the shortfilm “Behind”, Bologna, selected in the festivals Quargnento (Al), and Cortovisione, Lecce, Italy 2004.

PROFESSIONAL CREDITS:

2007:

Logistical Organisation for the Tv Show “Notte Mediterranea”, produced for the Italian Tv Channel RAIDUE by Frame S.p.A., Roma.

Second Assistant Director for the Tv Commercials “Ponti”, produced by Llittle Bull, and “Fresh up”, produced by European Film Communication, Roma.

Production Assistant and Italian – French interpreter for the International Documentary Production “Un Autre Monde” for European Film Communication in collaboration with the French Tv Channel France 2 (Roma)

Production Coordinator for the Tv Show “Coriandoli”, produced by S.T. Produzioni for the Italian Tv Channel RAIDUE, Roma.

2006:

Script supervisor in the feature “Acts of Violence”, produced by Il Films, directed by Il Lim, starring Leelee Sobieski (Los Angeles).

Production assistant in the feature “The Portal”, produced by Windchill Productions (Los Angeles).

Script supervisor in the shortfilm “Kidnap”, by Dan McKlellan (Los Angeles).

Assistant director in the shortfilm “Ballerina” by Rosario Errico, with Giancarlo Giannini, Alessandro Haber, Lina Sastri, Murray Abrahm, produced by “L’Immagine” Society, Rome.

Production coordinator for the shortfilms of the students of the Cinema school NUCT, Cinecittà, Rome.

Stage director for the TV show “Prove d'Autore”, presented by Antonio Lubrano, in collaboration with Viviarte, at the Accademia Nazionale di Danza, Rome.

Cinematographic production teacher in the formative master “Master in Manager della Produzione Cinematografica e Televisiva”, organized by Istituto “Giovanni Paolo II”, Somigliano D’Arco (NA).

First assistant director in the shortfilm “Negli occhi”, by Stefano Piccichè, Bologna.

2005

Production assistant in the shortfilm “Le banc”, produced by Izard & Compagnie, Paris.

Script supervisor on the shortfilm “Postmortuum”, by John Noseda, produced by the International Cinema School EICAR, Paris.

Script supervisor on the music video “Porto rispetto”, by the band Mariposa, Bologna.

2004 Script Script supervisor in the feature “Chatline- Inganni in rete”, produced by MG Cinevideo, Bologna.

Production assistant in the shortfilm “Perché ascoltare gli urlatori di strada”, by Andrea Fazzini, produced by Sky TV and presented in the Bologna Future Film Festival.

Production assistant in the music videos for Vasco Rossi “Dimenticarsi” and “Da sola con te”, produced by Castelnuovo, Bologna.

CINEMA:

2007: Winner of highly competitive scholarship for the European international university graduate Project “Leonardo”, for a five months training at the British Production Company Chrome Productions (London).

2005: Winner of highly competitive scholarship for the European International University Project “Erasmus” for six months cinema studies at the Paris-8 University, St. Dénis, Paris.

2003: Diploma in film direction at the Accademia Nazionale del Cinema, Bologna