Massimo Del Frate
Massimo Del Frate (born March 3, 1959) is an Italian TV producer.
Massimo Del Frate was born in Milan, where he attended high school at Liceo Scientifico Leonardo da Vinci. He entered the University of Pavia to take up philosophy and literature, writing his thesis about film critics and history. After earning his degree, he attended the Civica Scuola di Cinema "Luchino Visconti" in Milan. He lives in Milan with his wife and two children, and works between Milan and Rome.
Career[edit]
Mediaset (1985-2002)[edit]
Massimo Del Frate started his career in TV industry in 1985 as Editor cinema programming for Mediaset's channels Canale 5, Italia 1 and Rete 4.
He became Head of Canale 5 Scripted Programming in 1991.[1][2]
In 1998 he took on the role of Head of Mediaset's Drama Department as responsible of the editorial supervision of the channel's original drama productions (series, mini-series and TV-movie for the prime-time, soap-opera[3][4] and sit-coms for the daily day-time).
He left the Italian commercial broadcaster in 2002.
Endemol Italia and Endemol Shine Italy (2002-2018)[edit]
In June 2002 Massimo Del Frate joined Endemol Italia as Head of Drama productions and grew the Company scripted division to become one of the leading TV drama production entities in the Italian market. He created a wide range of scripted shows including TV-movie, sit-coms, soap-operas, and several multi-season prime-time series of Rai 1 and Canale 5.[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13]
Banijay Studios Italy (2018-)[edit]
In June 2018 Massimo Del Frate took on the role of Head of Drama at Banijay Studios Italy, a newly founded independent production company that operates in Italy under Banijay Group umbrella with the mission to create innovative and high-quality drama for Italian broadcasters Rai, Mediaset, Sky and OTT platforms and international co-productions projects.[14][15][16][17][18]
Filmography[edit]
Prime time drama[edit]
- Noi (2004, Mediaset)
- Provaci ancora prof / The teacher (2005-2017, 7 seasons, Rai,)
- Questa è la mia terra / Our land (2006, Mediaset)
- Il Generale dalla Chiesa / Murder of a General (2007, Mediaset)
- Donna Detective / Lady Detective (2007-2010, 2 seasons, Rai)
- Questa è la mia terra vent'anni dopo (2008, Mediaset)
- Fidati di me (2008, Rai)
- Miacarabefana.it (2009, Rai)
- La ladra (2010, Rai)
- La donna che ritorna (2011, Rai)
- S.O.S. Befana (2011, Rai)
- Un amore e una vendetta / Love and Vendetta (2011, Mediaset)
- Dov'è mia figlia (2011, Mediaset)
- Le tre rose di Eva / Tuscan Passion ( 2012-2018, 4 seasons, Mediaset)
- Rosso San Valentino (2013, Rai)
- Madre, aiutami (2014, Rai)
- Un'altra vita / Second Chance (2014, Rai)
- Solo per amore / For love alone (2015, Mediaset)
- L' Allieva / The good apprentice (2016-, 2 seasons, Rai)
- Sorelle / Sisters (2017, Rai)
- Scomparsa / Tangled lies (2017, Rai)
- Destini incrociati – Solo per amore (2017, Mediaset)
- Sacrificio d'amore (2017-2018, 2 seasons, Mediaset)
Sit-com[edit]
- Don Luca (2000-2003, 2 seasons, Mediaset)
- Il supermercato (2005, Mediaset)
- Don Luca c'è (2008, Mediaset)
- Così fan tutte (2009-2012, 2 seasons, Mediaset)
Soap-opera[edit]
- Vivere / Living (1999-2008, Mediaset)
- CentoVetrine/ The Mall (2001-2015, Mediaset)
References[edit]
- ↑ "NUOVO CINEMA ITALIA". la Repubblica (in italiano). Retrieved 2019-02-20.
- ↑ "RAI E FININVEST LITE PER SPENCER". la Repubblica (in italiano). Retrieved 2019-02-20.
- ↑ "Dal primo marzo con la sigla di Mina La soap "Vivere" risposta Mediaset a "Un posto al sole" - La Nuova Sardegna". Archivio - La Nuova Sardegna (in italiano). Retrieved 2019-02-20.
- ↑ "Vivere in una soap opera". la Repubblica (in italiano). Retrieved 2019-02-20.
- ↑ "Massimo Del Frate: Endemol scommette sul genere fiction - Digital-News". Digital News (in italiano). 2007-12-05. Retrieved 2019-02-20.
- ↑ "La vita del generale Dalla Chiesa diventa una fiction per Canale 5". la Repubblica (in italiano). Retrieved 2019-02-20.
- ↑ "Massimo Del Frate (Endemol) a TvBlog: "Stiamo lavorando al progetto di soap in prime time"". TVBlog.it. 2008-07-15. Retrieved 2019-02-20.
- ↑ "Centovetrine fa...500". film.it (in italiano). Retrieved 2019-02-20.
- ↑ "Massimo Del Frate, direttore fiction Endemol a TvBlog: "Alessandro Preziosi presto su Canale5 con L'Amore e la Vendetta e Virna Lisi su Rai1 con La Donna che Ritorna. Nuova serie con Amendola e il ritorno della Prof" [1 p.]". TVBlog.it. 2011-02-24. Retrieved 2019-02-20.
- ↑ "Centovetrine dieci anni dopo". la Repubblica (in italiano). Retrieved 2019-02-20.
- ↑ "Le Tre Rose di Eva, il successo? Merito del lavoro di gruppo. La prossima serie nel 2013". Televisionando (in italiano). 2012-06-22. Retrieved 2019-02-20.
- ↑ "Le Tre Rose di Eva 3: la morte di Aurora". VanityFair.it (in italiano). 2015-05-23. Retrieved 2019-02-20.
- ↑ "Su Rai1 'Scomparsa', thriller melo' nelle pieghe del rapporto genitori-figli". Adnkronos. Retrieved 2019-02-20.
- ↑ Keslassy, Elsa; Keslassy, Elsa (2018-06-25). "Banijay Studios Italy Bows to Produce Premium Scripted Content". Variety. Retrieved 2019-02-19.
- ↑ "Banijay Launches Italian Studios for Original Content". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2019-02-19.
- ↑ Rabeau, Aurélie (2018-06-26). "Banijay Group Launches Banijay Studios Italy". Banijay Group. Retrieved 2019-02-20.
- ↑ "Nasce Banijay Studios Italy, casa produzione tv guidata da Massimo Del Frate". Prima Comunicazione (in italiano). 2018-06-25. Retrieved 2019-02-20.
- ↑ S.p.A, Editoriale Duesse. "Massimo Del Frate alla guida di Banijay Studios Italy". E2S (in italiano). Retrieved 2019-02-20.
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