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Ivan Olita
NationalityItalian
EducationBFA (Bachelor Fine Arts)
OccupationFilm director
Websiteivanolita.com

Ivan Olita (born 24 November 1987) is an Italian-born film director, founder and creative director of New York based production company BRAVÒ.

Personal life

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Olita was born to an Italian father and a Russian mother.[1] He is currently based in Los Angeles, California.

Career

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Olita started his early career working as a model for Valentino, Roberto Cavalli[2] and Gianni Versace.[3]

In 2007, he started working in Italian television hosting a daily show on All Music together with Valeria Bilello.[4] In 2009, he co-hosted one night of Italy’s most viewed TV-event, Festival di Sanremo alongside Paolo Bonolis.[5][6] Olita was one of the protagonists of the 2011 Lavazza Calendar shot by Mark Seliger.[7][8]

From 2011 to 2013, he hosted Top Of The Pops on Raidue.[9] However, he briefly returned to Italian TV in January 2015 to host Forte Forte Forte alongside Italian showgirl Raffaella Carra.[10] During his TV career, he interviewed multiple music stars ranging from Katy Perry[11] to Ben Harper[12] and the Depeche Mode.

He was later inserted in the publication dream believe and create edited by Electa as one of the leading contemporary creators together with Ashton Kutcher Lena Dunham and others.[13]

Editorial content

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Olita was given an online column on Italian Rolling Stone in 2010.[14] In the following years, he continued to collaborate in writing, photography and film content with many Italian and international magazines such as Vogue,[15] Vanity Fair,[16] Wired,[17] GQ,[18] Visionnaire,[19] Purple,[20] V Magazine[21] and W.[22] He collaborated and interviewed artists such as Lady Gaga and Miley Cyrus and fashion personalities such as Karl Lagerfeld.[23] In 2014, he entered the board of contributors at content platform Nowness.[24]

Olita is a contributor of SHOWstudio, the fashion website founded and directed by Nick Knight.[25]

Filmmaking

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Olita was mentored by the filmmaker, Werner Herzog.[26]

Olita first started documenting his trips to remote places such as Mali,[27] the Amazon jungle, Siberia[28] and Colombia[29] with photographic reportages that have been featured on Vogue.it starting from 2010. In 2011, he documented the underground clubbing and transvestite Milanese scene with Freakers.[30]

His first attempt with the film came in 2014 with Fabulous James a short doc about the Life of billionaire James Goldstein and his 19th-century house, designed by John Lautner. The film premiered on Nowness[31] and was presented at the Centre Pompidou in Paris in an occasion of Asvoff 7.[32] It was featured on W Magazine with an LACMA museum screening during the party for the donation of the house to the museum.[33]

Olita continued with a series of three films devoted to documenting LA personalities; in 2015, he shot a second film about Mark Mahoney,[34] the west coast tattoo artist and a third and final film about Angelyne, the billboard queen, and showgirl of 1980s Los Angeles.

In 2015, Purple.tv held a retrospective of all his work related to the LA scene.[35] In October that year, he went on to release a short documentary about the underground skaters’ movement of Cuba[36] followed by a short doc about A.L.M.A., the largest and most expensive ground-based astronomical project in the world to date, the short doc was released on Amuse in March 2016.[37]

In January 2016, V Magazine released Gaga on Gaga, a short film by Olita diving into Lady Gaga’s philosophy in occasion of the artist’s guest editing of V99.[38] In December of the same year, Olita released Muxes, a documentary about Mexico’s third gender, a community of people living in the southern part of the Oaxaca region. The short doc has been featured on Short of The week[39] and staff picked by Vimeo before going on to be featured on National Geographic.[40]

Creative direction and commercial work

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In October 2013, he collaborated with contemporary artist Paola Pivi[41] on a piece later shown at the contemporary Dallas Contemporary 2015 Opening Night.[42]

In January 2014, Olita funded his own creative agency and production company in New York, BRAVÒ. The same year, BRAVO - creative directed the launch of Kim.guru a web app that would allow people to forecast the weather according to Kim Kardashians’ outfits.[43][44] In 2015 his agency BRAVO was behind the launch JustinKiss.me.[45] He also directed Sincerely La, a 2014 short film for Hugo Boss.

In March 2015, Olita collaborated with contemporary artist Francesco Vezzoli on a series of film that was exclusively released on NOWNESS.[46] He was also chosen as a director to shoot the Farfetch Unfollow campaign.[47]

In January 2017, Olita was tapped alongside academy award winner Paolo Sorrentino to direct the Campari 2017 video campaign.[48]

References

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  1. ^ "Ivan Olita, conductor Forte Forte Forte: Carra? "One who thinks fast"". LadyBlitz. Retrieved 23 January 2015.
  2. ^ "Singers designer, Armani as gettonato". Corriere della Sera. Retrieved 17 February 2009.
  3. ^ "Sa (n) famous oar". MarieClaire. Retrieved 10 February 2009.
  4. ^ "Ivan Olita, the beautiful looking glamor lightly". L'Arena.it. Retrieved 20 February 2009.
  5. ^ "Ivan Olita". Rai.it. Retrieved 20 February 2009.
  6. ^ "Ivan Olita, from Sanremo conductor pattern". Kika Press & Media. Retrieved 20 February 2009.
  7. ^ "The 2011 Lavazza calendar by Mark Seliger: Falling in Love in Italy". The Telegraph. Retrieved 9 May 2011.
  8. ^ "A Look At The 2011 Lavazza Calendar, 'The Making Of' And 'Behind The Scenes.'". If It's Hip, It's Here. Retrieved 9 May 2011.
  9. ^ "The conductor pattern Ivan Olita in TvBlog: "That's how the new Top of the Pops"". TvBlog. Retrieved 24 February 2010.
  10. ^ "Ivan Olita lead Forte Forte Forte on RAI 1 (preview Blogo)". TvBlog. Retrieved 21 November 2014.
  11. ^ "ALEX BRITTI, EMMA, KATY PERRY AND COLDPLAY". Rai. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
  12. ^ "Ivan Olita". Rai. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
  13. ^ "The Rebel Journey - dream, believe, and create". Vogue.it. Retrieved 7 April 2014.
  14. ^ "Stephen Dorff: l'intervista di Ivan Olita". Youtube. Retrieved 10 July 2012.
  15. ^ "Ivan Olita on the Trans-Siberian railway". Vogue.it. Retrieved 17 October 2012.
  16. ^ "Night at the Museum 24h (with Vezzoli and Kate Moss)". Vanity Fair.it. Retrieved 1 February 2012.
  17. ^ "IVAN OLITA". Contently. Retrieved 8 February 2013.
  18. ^ "Ivan Olita Press Release". GQ Italia. Retrieved 16 November 2015.
  19. ^ "VISIONAIRE ARTIST COMMERCIALS - Ivan Olita". Visionaire. Retrieved 5 August 2016.
  20. ^ "EL ESPACIO SAGRADO BY IVAN OLITA". purple DIARY. Retrieved 12 February 2014.
  21. ^ "IVAN OLITA - V99: GAGA ON GAGA". V MAGAZINE. Retrieved 10 February 2013.
  22. ^ "Fabulous James: James Goldstein Talks Style, Romance, and Taking Chances". W Magazine Videos. Retrieved 24 September 2016.
  23. ^ "#SHOTBYKARL PART 1". Youtube. Retrieved 4 November 2013.
  24. ^ "Ivan Olita - CREATIVE DIRECTOR". Nowness. Retrieved 7 November 2014.
  25. ^ "Ivan Olita SHOWstudio". SHOWstudio. Retrieved 10 October 2015.
  26. ^ http://www.vogue.it/en/news/daily-news/2017/09/14/ivan-olita-a-globetrotter-artist/
  27. ^ "Tombouctou by Ivan Olita". Vogue.it. Retrieved 19 August 2012.
  28. ^ "Ivan Olita on the Trans-Siberian railway". Vogue.it. Retrieved 17 August 2012.
  29. ^ "Collateralis by Olita e Benedetti". Vogue.it. Retrieved 8 July 2011.
  30. ^ "Freakers: an exhibition in Milan, between reality and appearance". Elle. Retrieved 30 November 2011.
  31. ^ "Fabulous James". Nowness. Retrieved 14 October 2014.
  32. ^ "'AS YOU DESIRE ME FOR NOWNESS BY IVAN OLITA". ASVOFF7. Retrieved 22 March 2015.
  33. ^ "Touring James Goldstein's Famous Sheats-Goldstein Home". W Magazine. Retrieved 24 March 2016.
  34. ^ "Mark Mahoney's LA Stories". Nowness. Retrieved 25 July 2015.
  35. ^ "LA ICONS: THE TRILAGY TAKEOVER". Purple.fr. Retrieved 30 March 2016.
  36. ^ "Skater's Paradise: Skating in Cuba". Nowness. Retrieved 16 October 2015.
  37. ^ "Searching for Stars in the Atacama Desert". Amuse. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
  38. ^ "IVAN OLITA GOES BEHIND THE SCENES OF V99". V Magazine. Retrieved 11 February 2016.
  39. ^ "DOCUMENTARY ABOUT IDENTITY IN LIVE-ACTION". Short of the Week. Retrieved 14 March 2016.
  40. ^ "Modern Muxes: An Entrancing Look at an Ancient Third Gender". National Geographic. Retrieved 14 March 2016.
  41. ^ "Paola Pivi: The Bears Within". Nowness. Retrieved 15 October 2013.
  42. ^ "Talking With Pink Polar Bears: This is One Dallas Art Happening You Absolutely Need To See". Papercity. Retrieved 4 July 2016.
  43. ^ "Cloudy with a chance of crop top! App turns Kim Kardashian into a weather girl, pairing global temperature updates with snaps of her top outfit choices for each climate". Daily Mail Online. Retrieved 30 June 2015.
  44. ^ "Are You Dressing Right for the Weather? Kim.Guru App Will Tell You Using Kim K's Outfits". Cosmopolitan.com. Retrieved 6 July 2015.
  45. ^ "JUSTIN BIEBER WOULD LIKE TO GIVE YOU -- YES, YOU -- A KISS". MTV. Retrieved 2 March 2016.
  46. ^ "Nowness by Francesco Vezzoli". Vogue.it. Retrieved 27 March 2015.
  47. ^ "THE UNFOLLOWERS". HUNGER TV. Retrieved 21 November 2015.
  48. ^ "CLIVE OWEN AND PAOLO SORRENTINO LEAD (R)EVOLUTION TO FILM FOR CAMPARI RED DIARIES 2017". CAMPARI GROUP. Retrieved 12 October 2016.
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