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We are committed to making your project a success and seeing that it receives the care, creativity, and high production values that it deserves.

For more information about Mediakite and for new business inquires, contact Francesco Malatesta
T 212.947 4703 or 917.660 3714
Email: francesco@mediakite.com



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Starting from your assignment input or from ideas that we generate at Mediakite, we can produce full programs or one-time stories ready-to-broadcast. Alternatively we can work with your own reporters or correspondents, providing you with all and only the extra resources needed to bring the project to completion.

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CALIFORNIA Wildfires

When wildfires ravaged the California countryside, Mediakite dispatched a crew so that its client could report on the devastation firsthand. Mediakite’s rapid response and on-site post-production allowed our client to keep pace with the competitive coverage of the disaster area and deliver breaking news to its viewers.





COLOMBIA: the Betancourt case

When our client needed to travel to the deep jungles of Colombia, Mediakite was on hand to provide a crew and bilingual production services. Following our client's request, Mediakite arranged for client's International Correspondent, to meet and interview Juan Carlos Lecompte, husband of kidnapped Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt, and follow him into the jungle on the tracks of his wife and the FARC guerillas who took her hostage.





AUSTRALIA

Mediakite takes pride in its ability to cover news across the globe. One client necessitated full production services for its coverage of the condition of the Aborigines in Australia. Mediakite organized the logistics of the operation, accompanied the client to Australia with a crew, and completed all post-production for a product that was broadcast on primetime television.



The Election Game: a 7-part series

As with most election years, media coverage must be well organized in order to keep up on the frantic campaign trail. Mediakite provided our client with full production assistance for The Election Game, a full-feature documentary dedicated to the US electoral process (broadcast in 7 episodes), by organizing interviews and coordinating all production logistics.



US Elections: on the McCain trail

Mediakite has assisted a client's campaign trail reporting by establishing contacts within the entourage of Republican Presidential nominee John McCain and providing a crew to follow Sen. McCain's campaign on his airplane and bus around the country, garnering exclusive contact with the Senator and reporting on breaking campaign news.



Luis Posada Carriles

A one-hour investigative report on Luis Posada Carrlles, one of the most controversial figures in anti-Castro terrorist groups. According to classified documents of the FBI and the CIA, Posada Carriles is responsible for a long series of deadly terrorist attacks: from the bombing of Cubana flight 455 in 1976 which killed all 74 on board, to a long list of bombings in Cuban hotels and restaurants.

Posada Carriles, who confessed his crimes in a New York Times interview, is held in a U.S. prison exclusively on immigration charges. Peter Kornbluh, director of the National Security Archive, calls him “The Bin Laden of Latin America". He has been involved in the bloodiest South American dictatorships of the '70s and '80s. 

Mediakite travelled from Miami to Cuba to unveil this controversial figure with a scary past ties and powerful connections.



Human Trafficking

We traveled from Nepal to India following the brutal and inhumane stories of young women and children kidnapped from their villages to be sold in the red light districts of Indian cities. We obtained exclusive interviews with young women in remote villages in the Himalaya valley and special access to the world's largest and most infamous red light districts of Calcutta and Mumbay, where baby prostitutes live and work in complete slavehood. Our crew also followed several police rescue operations.





Fashion Week, The Tribeca Film Festival: NYC's Cultural Scene

Every year Mediakite extensively covers New York's Fashion Week, the Tribeca Film Festival, as well as the major cultural events in the city.

With our long experience in the city we provide clients with unmatched assistance, exclusive interviews, inside stories, and an extensive stock footage. Mediakite provides a customized and focused angle for each and every client.





New York Marathon/US Tennis Open/USGA Golf Open 2006

Every year we cover New York City's major sport events, the NYC Marathon, the US Tennis Open and all major games in professional sport. In 2006 the USGA Golf Open was hosted by Winged Foot Golf Club in Mamaroneck, N.Y. and Mediakite had a crew on site for every day of the tournament.





Travel

For a show dedicated to travel we produced a series of segments on U.S. cities. In each episodes the show host meets celebrities who have a special tie to the city. Each city is unveiled trough the eyes and experiences of the chosen celebrity.
Among the featured cities are New York, Miami, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, New Orleans.





World's Largest Prison for Women

California's Valley State Prison for Women is the world's biggest detention center for women.

For this 50-minute documentary Mediakite had full access to all sections of the prison. In the Maximum-Security Unit the most violent inmates are held in small cages. Inmates that spit and bite are made to wear a hood. Drugs, violence, abuse and homosexuality are common in the jail's daily life.




Ultimate Fighting

Mediakite produced a 30’ documentary about this new contact sport: from the gym in Long Island, NY, where Ultimate Fighting is illegal, to the Light Heavy Weight World Championship in Las Vegas, where UFC is surpassing boxing and wrestling for media and public attention.

Ultimate Fighting is defined as a mixed martial arts competition between high level professional fighters who utilize the disciplines of jiu-jitsu, karate, boxing, kickboxing, wrestling.



Hurricane Wilma: complete coverage

As Hurricane Wilma approached Southwest Florida, Mediakite organized for their TV network client a visit to NOAA (National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration) in Miami, FL. Next we went to the AOC (Aircraft Operation Center) at Mac Dill Air Force Base in Tampa, FL, where the NOAAs airplanes fly inside the eye of the hurricane. We then moved along the western coast of Florida where Wilma struck, shooting, editing, and filing live reports.




"In un Altro Paese" (In Another Country)

A Mediakite crew shot the U.S. locations for "In un Altro Paese" (In Another Country) an award winning feature length documentary directed by Marco Turco, with Alexander Stille and Letizia Battaglia. Produced by Vania Del Borgo for: DocLab, RAI Italian Television, France2 in association with BBC Storyville and SBS TV Australia. Based on the book "Cadaveri Eccellenti" (Excellent Deaths), written by Alexander Stille, "In un Altro Paese" is the story of the battle against mafia conducted by justices Falcone and Borsellino.

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Hurricane Rita

When hurricane Rita struck, a Mediakite crew was along the Texas and Louisiana coast, shooting and editing in several locations and sending packages via satellite for our clients.


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62nd Venice Film Festival

A Mediakite team provided coverage of the 62nd Mostra Internazionale di Arte Cinematografica. We shot and edited on location, providing daily packages for our client, a well-known European movie television channel and also the official television of the Festival.


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Yucca Mountain

Mediakite visited and filmed this highly- secretive and protected site, 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas. Yucca Mountain is located in a remote desert on federally-protected land within the secure boundaries of the Nevada Test Site in Nye County. This is where US nuclear wastes are stored for secure disposal.

The Mediakite crew was granted access to Yucca Mountain thanks to the Los Angeles Foreign Press Center, the Department of Energy, Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, and the Yucca Mountain Project.yucca_pic1

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Alaska

For this one-hour special, Mediakite was involved in every stage of production, from concept to delivery. The project was sponsored by The Anchorage Economic Development Corporation, which provided transportation and accommodation for the crew and all logistic support on location.

The documentary focuses on environmental, social and political aspects of Alaska, the largest, least-populated and least-seen-on-TV state of the Union.

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The New Deserters

A special on US soldiers who deserted the Iraqi war and are now looking for refugee status in Canada.

Mediakite set up interviews and b-roll opportunities in Canada with the soldiers, their lawyers, an official representative of the Canadian IRB (Immigration and Refugee Board), and American soldiers who deserted during the Vietnam War.

The story was conceived by Mediakite and arranged according to the specific requests of the client.


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Elections

Mediakite produced a one-hour special on the 2004 US Presidential Elections. Spanning the two party conventions, covering the central issues of the elections from a US and foreign perspective, the documentary tries to reveal the strategies adopted by the two parties, and to follow and understand trends in popular vote.

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Kerry

Mediakite produced and filmed a one-hour special on the democratic presidential candidate John F. Kerry. We traveled with his campaign team and interviewed his closest aides, his supporters and adversaries.

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Inside the Super Bowl 2005

A Mediakite crew covered the 2005 Super Bowl in Jacksonville (FL). The game and behind-the-scenes of one of the biggest sports events in America.  Edited on location, the packages were sent to the client via satellite.

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Catholicism in the US

Mediakite produced a documentary on the Catholic Church in the United States. Traveling from Boston through the southwest along the Mexican Border, the doc analyzes the issues the Catholic Church is facing in the transition from John Paul II to Benedict XVI. Along the trip we edited daily packages for the clients evening news editions.


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Evangelism

A fifty-minute special on the Evangelical Churches around the United States. Produced by Mediakite, focusing on the increasing influence of the Christian right movements on the U.S. political scenario, especially following their role in President Bush's re-election.


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Falun Gong

Mediakite produced shot and edited a thirty-minute special on the spiritual movement Falun Gong.

We filmed in New York and in several locations in Taiwan, a country with one of the largest numbers of Falun Gong practitioners. It is second only to Mainland China where Falun Gong is banned by the authorities.

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Guantanamo

The local correspondent for a European network wanted to do a feature story on Guantanamo Detention Camp but did not have time to organize the project. Mediakite provided the solution.

We made all contacts for access to the Naval base, obtained credentials, set up interviews, arranged for travel and transportation, produced the piece on location and arranged satellite transmission from Cuba to Italy.
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Fort Polk

Mediakite arranged a visit to the Fort Polk Army Base, Louisiana and filmed training sessions in Urban Warfare.

Inside the base the military set up a replica of a village in the Middle East, populated by civilians and by enemy combatants, each wearing electronic vests that are capable of recognizing and identifying firearm shots. The US troop in training assaulted the village, carrying out a door-to-door battle.

Mediakite edited the packages on location and sent then via satellite to the European network.

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Border Patrol

The Mediakite crew followed the Arizona Border Patrol during their routine operations: patrol, chase, arrest.

We interviewed officers and illegal immigrants along the Mexican border and inside the border jail. The crew met with members of a private vigilante organizations and with a religious group that rescues lost immigrants in the desert.
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La Tosse di Ground Zero (Cough at Ground Zero) by Damiano Ficoneri
Winner of the Tenth annual Ilaria Alpi Television Award for best feature length documentary in 2004.

Co-produced by Mediakite and shot by Francesco Malatesta.

The Ilaria Alpi Award, established in 1995, is one of Italy's most prestigious Television awards. The prize is dedicated to Ilaria Alpi, the Italian journalist killed in Mogadishu in 1994, together with cameraman Miran Hrovatin. www.ilariaalpi.it



Oil

Mediakite produced a 30 minutes special on the Oil Business in Texas. Thorough a Houston-based oil company we arranged for a helicopter trip to the rigs in the Gulf of Mexico. We also set up interviews and found b-roll opportunities on oil fields and plants in the Texan desert.



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Geisha World

A feature-length documentary secret life of the Geisha.
Co-produced by Mediakite and shot by Francesco Malatesta.

The crew had full access to the very secret homes, schools, and tea houses in Kyoto where the Geisha keep alive an ancient Japanese tradition.
The documentary is an international co-production, intended for future theatrical and television release.

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California Wineries

Mediakite produced a one-hour show on winemaking in Napa and Sonoma Valleys, focusing on the new architecture and design of the wineries in these areas. New environmentally-friendly techniques in wine production and basic winery conception are also revealed in the documentary.

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New York al Cinema con Giovanna

Weekly seven-minute programs produced by Mediakite and broadcast in Italy and Europe. The show introduced European audiences to American movies being released in a very informal manner. For each film the host, Giovanna Calvino, met a different guest (celebrity, actor, writer, musician) at the movie theater.

With rich graphics and animation we communicated the glamour of movie making and the hip New York scene. Mediakite selected the host, identified the guests and the movies to feature. The shows were produced, shot and edited entirely by Mediakite.
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Bazaar

Mediakite produced ten segments featuring the newest New York trends for Summer 2004. Fast-paced shooting and editing underlined the style and goal of the show.

The stories were entirely produced, written, and edited by Mediakite and delivered to the client ready-to-air.

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Americana

A weekly hour-long program hosted by Gianni Riotta and broadcast by La 7 (Italian National TV) profiling American personalities. Our client decides which personality to profile for each show.

Mediakite fulfills pre-production (research, credentials, interview bookings, travel arrangements) and production functions and delivers all footage to the post-production crew in Italy

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