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Gian Franco Morini was born in Bologna, Italy.
He attended Collegio San Luigi in Bologna, where he obtained a scientific high school degree.
He later graduated in Communication & Marketing in June 2006 at L.UN.A. (Libera Universita' delle Arti), after a 3 year course. At that point he was asked to join the university's research team: C.R.L. (Centro Ricerche Luna). He started collaborating on all the projects they were involved in, as the "Portale Italiano della Moda", in collaboration with Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana.
In September 2007 he decided to move to New York City, where he attended a 2 year filmmaking course at New York Film Academy.
In November 2010 he started working with Gala (born Gala Rizzatto), Italian pop singer-songwriter. For her first album, "Come Into My Life", she was nominated for "Best Female Artist" at the Celebration of Female Artists Awards in the United Kingdom, and she received the "Disque d'Or" at the Midem in Cannes. Her single "Freed From Desire", went platinum and then diamond, and sold over six million copies worldwide. She has performed on the UK's BBC Television's Top of the Pops, appearing with Janet Jackson and U2; as well as at the stadium Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy in Paris and the Bulls Arena in Madrid, before an audience of more than 20,000 people.
He is now completing the post production of the new clip of Anthony-Cedric Vuagniaux, "'69".
He is now editing the first feature film of the photographer Diana Scheunemann, "Love American Skin". They started their collaboration in 2011, with a video editorial for Bolero Magazin, featuring supermodel Charlotte Kemp Muhl (member of the band The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger with partner Sean Ono Lennon - she has been featured in Maybelline campaigns, as well as Jennifer Lopez's clothing brand J Lo.) and featured on the February 2011 issue of the magazine.
Since 2009 he started a continuative collaboration with Anthony-Cedric Vuagniaux, composer, producer and founder of Plombage Records, music label based in Geneva, Switzerland. They share common passions for 70s vintage synths, soundtracks' composers (such as Francois de Roubaix, Giorgio Moroder, John Carpenter, Ennio Morricone and Nino Rota) and old semi-forgotten D-movies.
His most important collaborators are the photographer Don Gerardo Frasco, the composer Anthony-Cedric Vuagniaux and the assistant director Gaia Baldini.
While student at the New York Film Academy, he shot with 27$ an unofficial music video for Mr. Oizo's track "Positif", as one of the projects in the 2 year course, utilizing materials obtained for free from old store decorations got around the City. The clip became the 3rd most seen on YouTube France that month and A-Trak (born Alain Macklovitc) , Kanye West's dj, published an article on his blog about it, thinking was the official work of his good friend Quentin Dupieux a.k.a. Mr. Oizo. Quentin Dupieux himself had to comment on the video indicating how he was not, in fact, the mysterious author of the video.
An unofficial "horror" music video about vegetables' tortures that he wrote, directed, edited and acted in, for The Bloody Beetroots, while still in film school, is now over 800,000 views on YouTube.
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