321 Hampton Dr., Venice, CA 90291
(310) 699-5999
E-mail: tao@lafco.tv
Websites: www.ruspoli.com; www.lafco.tv
FILMOGRAPHY
JUST SAY
KNOW, digital video, 30 minutes, documentary
2002
THIS FILM
NEEDS NO TITLE, digital video, 30 minutes, documentary 2002
Official
Selection, Tiburon International Film Festival
DJ 80, digital video, 8 minutes, documentary
2002
LVI, digital video, 1 minute, experimental
2002
EL CABLE, digital video, 30 minutes, documentary
2001
OUT OF CONTROL, digital video, 5 minutes, experimental
2001
Official Selection, Tiburon International Film Festival
FLAMENCO: A PERSONAL JOURNEY, digital video, 90
min, documentary
2001
Winner:
Judge's choice, Cine-Nites ongoing film festival
Winner:
Best of the Festival, documentary: Berkeley Film and Video Festival
Official
Selection: 4th Annual Rome Film Festival
TAKE THE WHEEL, digital video, 30 seconds, commericial
2001
VIETNAM PSALMS, digital video, 3 minutes, music video
2000
HAVANA 1999, digital video, 23 minutes,
1999
Documentary
(filmed in Cuba) Winner: Judge's choice, Cine-Nites film festival
DADO RUSPOLI, A PORTRAIT, 8mm film, B/W, 22 minutes, documentary
1997
VIVA BARSTOW!, super 8mm film, B/W, 12 minutes, silent narrative,
1997
MOVING PICTURES, super 8mm film, B/W, 4 minutes, Experimental
1996
BIKINI EXPLOSION, super 8mm film, B/W and color, 4 minutes, experimental
1996
Screened
at Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley
WORK EXPERIENCE
LOS ANGELES FILMMAKERSą CO-OP (The LAFCO Bus project)
2000-present
Founder and director
ELDORADO: THE ROAD MOVIE, Warp1318 RAI3 co-production
2000
Director: Emerson Gattafoni
Co-star in 5-part docu-drama shot in Australia for Italian television
TANGO, Argentina Sono Film
1997
Director: Carlos Saura; Cinematographer: Vittorio Storaro
Camera
Department Intern and Italian-Spanish-English interpreter
BULWORTH, 20th Century Fox
1996
Director:
Warren Beatty; Production
Designer: Dean Tavoularis
Art
Department Assistant; Assistant to Mr. Tavoularis
JACK, Hollywood Pictures
1995
Director:
Francis Coppola; Production
Designer: Dean Tavoularis
Art
Department Assistant; Assistant to Mr. Tavoularis
EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, BA philosophy
1998
COMPUTER SKILLS
Proficient in Final Cut Pro, Adobe Photoshop, and Macromedia Dreamweaver
LANGUAGES
Fluent in English, Italian, & Spanish; conversational French
REFERENCES
Dean Tavoularis, Production Designer
Hubert
Dreyfus, Professor in the Graduate School of Philosophy, UC Berkeley