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Producer/Director making BAFTA, RTS and Emmy award-winning and nominated films. Grierson finalist. Experience of most film-making situations; live, long-form observational, short, very short, 90 minute, feature, multi-part series as sole director, series director and self-shooter on all formats for many major world broadcasters and the web
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Did somebody say just eat?
The Eagle has landed. The new incarnation of Stanley Tucci’s gastronomic tour of Italy, beginning tonight on Disney Channel, is subtly different to the three seasons made for CNN. Stanley is less jocose. Now, the hero car is never seen in an up-and-past, and almost never in a drone shot. These ten films in two seasons are less about Italy as place, more as a food source.
The most telling change and subtlest, is photographic. Most of the action takes place in a wide shot and reveals Stanley’s increasing influence on us on location, and the influences on him. Tucci is a screen star, but his roots and I believe his heart are all theatre. On stage there is no close-up. In films they are increasingly rare, especially now that digital image capture reveals every pore. Stan need have no dermatological fears – his diet seems to preserve his timeless looks – but on TV he feels that the wider the lens, the closer the proximity to the truth.
Stan himself directs five of the films, a difficult feat to pull off. The season premier is his, a film about the food of Tuscany