Serena Panariti

Filmmaker, Video Editor, Visual Designer

Florence, Italy
Serena Panariti, Italian filmmaker and visual designer,
curious about everything related to visual communication and storytelling.
Currently based in Italy, but always on the move, backpacking around the world to experience new intercultural environments, sharing different points of view and achieving cultural and professional growth.

I have worked as a filmmaker and visual designer for different realities, from the film industry to European agencies and universities, from companies to theatres and festivals, in Italy, Holland, Hungary and Portugal.

I specialised with a Master in Fine Arts of Filmmaking at Ca' Foscari University in Venice, I have a degree in Design and Multimedia from the IUAV University of Venice and have also studied at the IADE Creative University in Lisbon.

Work Experience

European University Institute

Videomaker and Motion Graphics Designer

April 2023 -

International Fund For Agricultural Development

Communication Consultant, remote

April 2023 - June 2023

Mediacross Agency

Film technician, Video Editor and Motion Designer

November 2022 - January 2023

Universal Film Academy

Creative Director

September 2022 - October 2022 Florence, Italy

Robert Schuman Centre For Advanced Studies - EUI

Multimedia Assistant and Motion Graphics Designer

September 2020 - August 2022 Florence, Italy

European University Institute

Video Editor and Motion Graphics Designer (external, part time)

June 2020 - July 2020 Quartiere Firenze, Italy

Freelancer

Filmmaker and Motion Graphic Designer

March 2020 - June 2020 Italy

Panorama Films Srl

IT Production Office Assistant

I worked for national and international feature Film.
February 2020 - March 2020 Italy

Archivio Di Stato Di Verona - MusALab

Video Editor

Creation of Tv episodes for Rai channels: editing of interviews, theatrical and historical recorded materials.
December 2019 - March 2020 Verona, Italy

Unimed

Jury at the 76th Venice International Film Festival

Jury at the 76th Venice International Film Festival,
for the Unimed 2019 Award, assigned to Pablo Larraìn's Ema movie.
August 2019 - September 2019 Italy

Officinema Doc Srls

Assistant director and Project development

Cooperation in the pre-production stage of the realization for the movie Sea Sisters, by Brunella Filì

- Research and development of first treatment;
- Research and development of markets and research funding;
- Project development and graphic creation of the presentation Dossier;
- first script edit
May 2019 - September 2019 Italy

Teatro Boxer

Filmmaker and Backstage Photographer

Creation of multimedia content, photographic projects, trailers and promotional videos.
Italy

Spilimbergo Film Festival

Jury at the "Le Giornate della Luce" Festival of Spilimbergo

Jury at the "Le Giornate della Luce" Festival of Spilimbergo, IT
- award assigned to Daniel Ciprì, best photography for the movie "La Paranza dei Bambini"
June 2019 - June 2019 Spilimbergo, Italy

European Maritime Safety Agency

Communication Officer Trainee

My main tasks concerned the preparation of visuals used on agency's multiple communication platforms, infographics, animations, graphics layout and assisting in the production of institutional videos.
March 2018 - August 2018 Portugal

Elentek

Graphic designer, Videomaker, Photographer

Art director of the company's visual communication: graphic designer, filmmaker and photographer of projects that communicate ideas and information for clients. I am working on a wide range of products such as, for example, the entire visual identity of communications packages, web content, advertising, publications, catalogues, presentations, video and animations.
September 2017 - February 2018 Italy

PublishingLab

Digital Publishing Intern, Researcher and Graphic Designer

The PublishingLab is an Amsterdam-based lab with a hybrid attitude: we conducts publishing experiments that mix diverse practices, skills, tools, methods. I worked as Researcher and Graphic Designer, by investigating the interrelation of Fashion and Social Media.

"The Growing Influence of Social Media in the Fashion Industry" has been the name of my last presentation shown at IFFTI conference at the end of March, 2017.

"Fashion Instagrammer in 100 Pics" tells about the conclusion of my research at PublishingLab in collaboration with the Amsterdam Fashion Institute. With my team it has been researching how fashion publishing has changed in response to the emergence of social media and the rise of bloggers into the runways of the most prestigious shows. As we delved into our research, the rapid development of bloggers brought forward numerous question, in particular, issues around online identity, monetization of user engagement, and the deterioration of editorial prudence in fashion journalism. As a result, we emerged from our research with the probing question: “How do Fashion Instagrammers strategically curate their branded identities in order to monetise their user engagement?”

In order to showcase our research, we created a web page that mirrored the navigation and design of mobile applications, an appropriate framework considering the prominence of Instagram within the fashion industry.

Here are the final result:

bit.ly/insta100pics
February 2017 - July 2017 Netherlands

Studio Visuale

Intern, Graphic and Motion Designer

I worked in team to develop digital communication projects - brand, designing layouts and graphics elements, content management of digital materials for the web, and video editing - acquiring project autonomy.
February 2016 - June 2016 Italy

Education

Università Ca' Foscari

Master in fine Arts in filmmaking

March 2019 - March 2020 Venezia, Italy

IUAV

Design and Multimedia

I graduated in Industrial Design and Multimedia, at the IUAV University of Venice, with 110/110, in November 2016

Principal subjects covered and skills acquired:
photography, 3D digital modeling, typography, basic design, product design, graphic design, web design, theoretical courses and computer skills, publishing and editing skills, media interaction and graphic skills.
September 2013 - November 2016 Italy

IADE Creative University

Design and Multimedia

I attended for 
six months some Design courses, as Erasmus student, in IADE Creative University

Principal subjects covered and skills acquired:
branding, communication design, ergonomics, multimedia design, interaction design, illustration, portugues, new computer skills, open-minded perspective.
September 2014 - March 2015 Lisbon, Portugal

Liceo A. Einstein

Scientific studies, with German language


I attended the high scientific school “A. Einstein” with German language, in Piove di Sacco (PD)

Final mark: 93/100
Certification: German language, level B1, at Goethe-Institut
*above all, I learned how to manage situations being flexible and mainly how to take part in brainstorming sessions.
September 2008 - June 2013 Piove di Sacco, Italy

Languages

Italian (Native),
English (Fluent),
Portuguese (Advanced),
German (Conversational),
French (Beginner),

Skills

Adobe After Effects, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Indesign, Adobe Muse, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere Pro , Audition, Autodesk Alias Automotive, Creativity, CSS, Dance, Editing, Filmmaking, Final Cut, HTML, Illustration, Microsoft Office, OS Windows, OSX Mac, Photography, Sound Design, Strategic Thinking, Typography,