Carlo Cresto-Dina is a film producer based between Italy and the UK. In 1999 he started the Documentary and Short Film section of Fandango Films in Rome, under which he produced a number of feature documentaries and debut films including I For India (2004) by Sandhya Suri, which launched at Sundance and was listed in the New York Times "10 Best film of the year". Other titles include Calle 54 (2001), by Academy Award Winner Fernando Trueba; Super 8 Stories (2002), by Emir Kusturica, and the international hit Tickets (2005), directed by Ken Loach, Abbas Kiarostami and Ermanno Olmi. In Italy, he conceived and managed 'Real Cinema', an innovative distribution concept which published more than 80 titles and sold almost 1M copies through the prestigious label of Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore. In 2008 Carlo Cresto-Dina founded Tempesta srl, a new film production company based in London and Bologna. The company's first film, CORPO CELESTE, the debut feature by Alice Rohrwacher, premiered in Cannes 2011. Tempesta's new feature, L'intervallo, by Leonardo DI Costanzo, an Italy,-Hungary-Switzerland- Germany co-production, started principal photography in July 2011. In London, Tempesta was developing two features by first time directors. Carlo Cresto-Dina is a member of the European Film Academy (EFA), Ateliers du Cinema Europeen (ACE) and a voting member at David di Donatello Academy in Italy. He has been a visiting professor of film production at Princeton University, NYU, University of Pennsylvania, and at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan.
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