PEOPLE
Giovanni Bucci – Director / Creative Director
Giovanni Bucci is a Dutch-Italian award-winning director with 20 years of industry experience. Gio’s understanding of the entire production process enables him to brainstorm different innovative ideas with the most successful outcome in mind.
Gio directed two Korn music videos (Never Never and Love & Meth), which have won several awards.
He has worked for many high-end clients including Netflix, Nike, Warner Bros., and Sony. His expertise and mastery of animation is evident in the work he’s done designing and directing Idents for MTV and Red Bull, as well as being a motion designer on film titles including Star Trek: Beyond, Pacific Rim Uprising, RoboCop (2014), and many others. Giovanni’s work has been featured in industry magazines and websites including Rolling Stone, Computer Arts and Stash.
As a musician, sound is a crucial element to his approach to work, and he dedicates considerable attention to the seamless integration of dynamic sound and visuals.
Paola Rocchetti – Art Director
Paola Rocchetti is an Italian award-winning art director, designer, and animator, who divides her time between Los Angeles and London. Her eclectic professional background includes fashion, illustration, brand identity, graphic design, character animation, and motion design.
Her first-class work has been commissioned by clients and brands including Marc Jacobs, Calvin Klein, Under Armour, Cirque du Soleil, and Google, and has been featured in Rolling Stone, Stash, Idn, and i-D.
Paola comes from a long line of creatives in an artistically inspired environment. Her father was Oscar-winning Make-Up Artist Manlio Rocchetti, and her family’s business, Rocchetti Parrucche, has been making fine wigs and designer hairpieces for over a century.
A true aesthete, Paola has a remarkable flair for make-up and styling. She is drawn to a distinctive artistic vision that is eye-catching, fascinating, and glamorous. Her discerning taste serves as an intrinsic element to illuminate each project she works on.
Chachi Ramirez – Producer
Chachi Ramirez is an accomplished American producer/filmmaker with 20 years experience working in entertainment. He has produced a library of documentaries, films, commercials and branded content for clients like, RedBull, Clippers, Legendary, Amazon and Blizzard Entertainment.
Ramirez was a contributor in the emergence of E-sports in the gaming arena, especially as the head of production for Global Gaming League which produced the Hip-Hop Gaming League with Snoop Dogg in 2007. Since then he’s been a resource to create top level documentaries and branded content for publishers like PUBG, Riot Games and Twitch. Throughout his career Ramirez has worked with some of the best creatives in the industry, including Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu as his photographer and documentarian for his Oscar winning project “Carne y Arena.”
Chachi recently co-founded the Guadalupe Visual & Performing Arts Center on the coast of California which was awarded 11 million dollars in funding to renovate a small town’s theater into a complete community arts center which will be operated and programmed by Ramirez’s non-profit.
Lee Nelson – Creative Manager/VFX Supervisor
Lee Nelson is an American award winner Creative Manager/VFX Supervisor. He has collaborated with some of the best vfx artists – creative directors and producers over the past 15 years to achieve creative objectives for many of top tier clients such as: Fox, Paramount, Nickelodeon, FX, Universal, Sky Carousel, Imax and many others. Lee’s awards list includes VES Award for large format breakthrough in technology and Emmy nominations for tv titles for Amercian Horror Story series and Picard Star Trek.
His background is cutting edge 3d design with the ability to assemble and run teams to complete hi-end design goals for the entertainment and gaming industry.
A sailor – A restorer – A builder – A visionary and a nice guy
AWARDS and PRESS
Web and Print Press
- The Rolling Stone
- Stash – issue 88
- Computer Arts – N.177 / N. 163
- Idn
- LBB – Little Black Book
- Consequence of Sound
- MTV Hive
- Metal Injection
- Revolver Magazine
- Digital Arts
- Studio Daily
- Dread Central
- VideoStatic
- AWN (Animation World Network)
- The Reel – May 2010
- Post Magazine
- Loudwire
- Promo News
- Voyage LA Magazine
- Design Week
- Ventilate
- Blabbermouth
- Capital Chaos TV
- 3D Artisan – issue 165
- Markee Mag
- Beware
- Motion TV
- Design Finder
- Motiongraphics
- Scaryideas
- Motion Served
- The Inspiration Room
- Sky News
- Unmask
- Directors Note
- HorrorNews.net
- Horrorpedia
- Digital Producer
- Everything Visual
- Televisual – Sept. 2011 / June 2010
- Beautiful Decay
- Metalsucks
- Orkus! Magazin
- FTW
- Trendshow
- Wow Effect
- CGW
Awards
- Telly Awards – 2019
Silver Telly Winner: Art Direction (for ODDKO – Disobey)
Bronze Telly Winner: Music Video (for ODDKO – Disobey)
- Los Angeles Movie Award– 2020
Best Music Video (for ODDKO – D4TM)
Best Cinematography (for ODDKO – D4TM)
Best Editing (for ODDKO – D4TM)
Best Production Design (for ODDKO – D4TM)
Best Costume Design (for ODDKO – D4TM)
- LA Music Video Awards – 2019
Best Metal Video (for ODDKO – Disobey)
Best Horror Video (for ODDKO – Disobey)
Nomination – Visually Stunning (for ODDKO – Disobey)
- Williamsburg International Film & Music Competition – 2019
Best Music Video (for ODDKO – Disobey)
- Filmchilla – 2019
Best Music Video (for ODDKO – Disobey)
- American Movie Awards – 2014
Best Music Video (for Korn – Love & Meth music video)
- UK Film Festival – 2014
Best Music Video (for Korn – Never Never music video)
- Canada International Film Festival – 2015
Best Music Video (for Korn – Never Never music video)
- Telly Award – 2014
Music Video – Silver (for Korn – Never Never music video)
- Amsterdam Film Festival – 2014
Winner of World Cinema: Music Video (for Korn – Never Never music video)
- American Movie Awards – 2014
Best Production Design / Art Direction (for Korn – Never Never music video)
- NYLA International Film Festival – 2014
Best Music Video (for Korn – Never Never music video)
- Williamsburg International Film Festival (WILLiFEST) – 2014
Best International Music Video (for Korn – Never Never music video)
- BassAwards
Winner Best Videoclip Bronze (for Korn – Never Never music video)
- Los Angeles Cinema Festival of Hollywood – 2014
Best Music Video (for Korn – Never Never music video)
- Las Vegas Film Festival – 2012
Winner: Golden Ace Award (for the project Addictions)
- LAMA – Los Angeles Movie Awards – 2011
Winner: Award of Excellence and Best Costume Design (for the project Addictions)
- Los Angeles International Underground Film Festival
Best Music Video (for Korn – Never Never music video)
- BMVA – Berlin Music Video Awards – 2014
Nomination: best VFX (for Korn – Never Never music video)
- 2019 – Rome Prisma festival – Italy
Best Music Video February 2019
- Loudwire Music Awards
Nomination for best “Rock Video of the Year” (for Korn – Never Never music video)
- Wasteland Film Festival – 2021
Best Music Video (for ODDKO – D4TM)
- Film Invasion Los Angeles – 2021
Best Music Video (for ODDKO – D4TM)
Screenings
- 2021 – Berlin Music Video Awards 2021
Fleshgod Apocalypse – Monnalisa
Official Selection – Music Video
- 2019 – Shriekfest Horror/Sci-Fi Film Festival (Finalist)
Official Selection – Music Video
- 2019 – Los Angeles CineFest (Semi-Finalist)
Official Selection – Music Video
- 2019 – Indie Visions Film Festival (Finalist)
Official Selection – Music Video
- 2019 – Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival
Official Selection – Music Video
- 2019 – Los Angeles Fashion Festival
Official Selection – Music Video
- 2019 – Indie Horror Film Festival
Official Selection – Music Video
- 2019 – SciFi Miami Film Festival
Official Selection – Music Video
- 2019 – Indie Visions Film Festival
Official Selection – Music Video
- 2019 – LIFT-OFF GLOBAL NETWORK TOKYO
Online Festival Official Selection – Music Video
- 2019 – Pune Short Film Festival
Official Selection – Music Video
- 2019 – American Horror Film Festival
Official Selection – Music Video
- 2019 – Erotic&Bizarre Art Film Festival
Official Selection – Music Video
- 2019 – British Horror Film Festival
Official Selection – Music Video
- 2019 – CLIPPED Music Video Festival
Official Selection – Music Video
- 2019 – FEAR NYC Horror Film Festival
Official Selection – Music Video
- 2019 – Goa Short Film Festival
Official Selection – Music Video
- 2019 – International Music Video Underground
Official Selection – Music Video
- Raindance Film Festival – 2014 London, UK
Official Selection
- Zero Film Festival – 2011 New York, US
Official Selection
- Pause Fest – 2012 Melbourne, Australia
Screening
- UK Film Festival – 2012 London, UK
Official Selection
- Resfest – 2007 Turin, Italy
Official Selection
- NXNE – North by Northeast Festivals and Conference – 2012 Toronto, Canada
Official Selection
- New York International Film Festival in LA – 2011 Sherman Oaks, US
Official Selection
- 3rd Annual New Media Film Festival – 2011 San Francisco Bay Area, US
Official Selection
- Shockfest Film Festival of Hollywood – 2011 Los Angeles, US
Official Selection – Opening Nightmare Screening
- X FEST Film Festival – 2011 Cape Town, South Africa
Official Selection
- Bideodromo – 2011 Bilbao, Spain
Official Selection
- Kinofest – 2011 Bucharest, Romania
Official Selection
- Prix Ars Electronica – 2012 Linz, Austria
Official Selection
- IMF – International Motion Festival – 2012 Nicosia, Cyprus
Official Selection
- Visioneca – Festival of Experimental Film – 2012 Freshwater, Isle Of Wight, UK
Official Selection
- ECU’ – The European Independent Film Festival – 2012 Paris, France
Category: Featured, Music Video
Official Selection
- 8th Cologne International Videoart Festival – 2012 Cologne, Germany
Official Selection
- Festival Internacional de Videoarte – 2012 Madrid, Spain
Official Selection
- Ex Teresa Arte Actual -Museum of experimenta Art -2012 Mexico City, Mexico
Screening
- FIVA II – Festival Internacional de Video Arte – 2012 Buenos Aires, Brazil
Official Selection
