Biographie
Max Bartoli is a versatile production executive with extensive experience in production finance, international media deals, and business affairs. He has worked with global matrix organizations, entrepreneurial startups, and charities. Currently, Max serves as a Media Producer for the World Bank in Washington D.C. and consults for private companies in Europe. He is also the CEO and founder of MaXaM Productions.
Max was the Chief Producer for the World Bank's historic projection mapping event "Fiat Lux," held in Vatican City on December 8th during the Jubilee of Mercy opening. This event featured projections of images and videos from top photographers and videographers worldwide on St. Peter's Basilica's facade and dome. Co-produced by Paul Allen's Vulcan Productions, Obscura Digital, the Li Ka Shing Foundation, and the Okeanos Foundation, the event was broadcast live globally via five satellites. "Fiat Lux" was covered by media across all industrialized nations, translated into 20 languages, and reached an audience of 4.4 billion people in 47 countries.
In 2015, Max produced and directed "The Secret of Joy," a $500K project including a short film, book, and song to raise awareness and funds for pediatric cancer. In 2009, he co-wrote, produced, and directed the sci-fi feature "Atlantis Down," starring Michael Rooker and Dean Haglund from The X-Files. The film premiered at the Chinese Mann Theater in Hollywood and Apollo Cinema in London's Piccadilly Circus and secured worldwide distribution through Hollywood's Entertainment 7.
Max also directed, produced, and edited the eight-episode TV series "Atlantis Rising: The Making of Atlantis Down," which aired on Cox 11 in Virginia from February to December 2010.
In 2008, Max received the prestigious Cisterna d'Argento award from the Italian Government, honoring exceptional achievements in arts, peace, economics, and science. Past recipients include Pope John Paul II, Nelson Mandela, and former Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi. His film "Ignotus" was screened in Rome for Pope Benedict XVI and former Italian Prime Ministers Romano Prodi and Silvio Berlusconi, each of whom personally praised the work.
In 2006, Max produced and directed the short film "Ignotus," which won 25 awards at international film festivals over 18 months. Accolades include Best International Short Film at the New York International Film Festival, Best Foreign Language Short at the San Fernando Valley International Film Festival in Hollywood, and two Silver Pelican Awards at the Taormina Film Festival.
In 2004, under MaXaM Productions, Max wrote, produced, and directed two documentaries: "Postcards From The Past" and "Time Travelers." Between 2002 and 2004, he was director/producer at Rotella and Partners, an advertising company, where he directed multiple videos and two documentaries—"Coliseum," which won Italy's Media Star Award, and "Tunisia the Jewel of the Mediterranean Sea."
Since 1998, Max has directed and produced corporate, institutional videos, and TV commercials for various advertising agencies in Italy and England. In 1997, he co-wrote "Metropolis" with Francesco Licata, a TV program broadcast nationwide in Italy on Italia 1, a Mediaset channel, as part of the Benefit TV gala Trenta Ore Per la Vita.
Born in Italy, Max holds a degree in Media Law and has worked extensively in England and the United States, where he currently resides. He is also the author of two books published in 1989 and 1991, earning him the title of 'Youngest European Fiction Writer' in 1989.
