PRODUCTION NEWS
12.2011 We recently wrapped production on an Arm & Hammer project for Ferrara & Company, directed by Dean Cundey.
10.2011 Bob's "Little People Zoo" spot for Fisher Price is in Ad Age's Top 10 list for most liked commercials in October. See it here.
10.2011 Enjoy this article released on SourceEcreative about our latest expansion. Read it here.
10.2011 Director Chris Walters from GiraldiMedia is shooting today with Carmelo Anthony for the NYC Million Trees Initiative.
10.2011 Bob just had a great shoot in LA directing a campaign for Great Call
10.2011 Check out our commercials section to see Bob's new stunning campaign for Fisher Price
8.2011 Giraldi Media now features a new roster of directors specializing in comedy, automotive, fashion, dialogue, viral, animation/effects, and tabletop. Check them out here.
7.2011 Proud to announce Giraldi editor/designer Valeria Gauldi's short film "Viola" will be featured at the Manhattan Film Festival!
7.2011 Bread Tribeca is now on Twitter and Facebook! Follow along for the latest deals and specials.
6.2011 Start of 11 day shoot in Toronto for a great new Fischer Price campaign.
6.2011 Bob honored by the Director's Guild of America at the DGA Game Changers Celebration.
5.2011 Wrapped up a successful year at the School of Visual Arts with the MPS Live Action Short Film Festival and the Undergrad Short Film Fest.
3.2011 New York Festival's International Advertising Awards will honor Bob Giraldi as one of the first ever recipients of the Living Legend Award.
3.2011 Bob Giraldi's short film, The Grey Coat, has won the Silver World Medal at the New York Festival's International Television & Film Awards.
2.2011 Check out Bob's latest retrospective reel, My Life in Twenty.
1.2011 Wrapped up a terrific shoot for Ricola. The Swiss brand will certainly showcase their international appeal with this upcoming spot.
11.2010 Are you following Bob on Twitter? Be sure to say hello to @BobGiraldi.
09.2010 Bob Giraldi Interview on NY1: http://bit.ly/a422BO
08.2010 Bob Giraldi's short film, The Grey Coat, will be screened at the San Diego Asian Film Festival this October.
07.2010 We here at the studio are gearing up to shoot a web commercial for a new pharmaceutical. The shoot includes a scene with real square dancers in authentic, traditional wardrobe.
06.2010 Bob Giraldi concluded "I Love New York" shoot on a great note- with Bob filming Rachael Ray in a beautiful local farm. Many thanks to Rachael and the Queens Farm Museum. We hope to have a final edit in the next week or two.
06.2010 Lorne Michaels opens up the SNL stage for Bob to shoot the amazing Tina Fey as part of the "I Love New York" campaign. Thanks, Tina! Our final shoot date with Rachael Ray is scheduled for the end of this month.
06.2010 Bob's shoot with Alec Baldwin at Lincoln Center for "I Love New York" was a huge success. An ad lib scene may appear in various places online.
06.2010 Last night's shoot with Mark Sanchez, quarterback for the NY Jets, was awesome! Thanks to Mark and our amazing crew, who put forth an amazing amount of effort in the name of New York State!
06.2010 Bob is in pre-production for the new "I Love New York" campaign. The spot will feature an exciting list of celebrities- Tina Fey, Rachael Ray, Alec Baldwin and Mark Sanchez- and beautiful New York locations.
05.2010 Bob will be speaking tomorrow at the SHOOT 2010 Directors Symposium as part of CreativeWeek NYC. Along with fellow panelist, Laura Belsey, Bob will share perspectives & insights into being a director today and how he is helping to prepare up-and-coming directors for the real world tomorrow by mentoring students. The discussion begins at 10 AM @ The DGA Theater. See SHOOT Online for tickets and more information
Tomorrow night is also Bob's 2010 Project Class screening, "A Dark Year"! The films being shown are the result of months of labor on the part of the student filmmakers, Bob & his teaching assistants. We are so excited to finally watch the finished products on the big screen. Congratulations to all the students & we wish them the best of luck!
05.2010 SVA students will screen their films in just a few weeks as part of "A Dark Year" film showcase. A panel of 7 judges will choose the winning students, whom will receive generous cash prizes! We wish all of Bob's students the best of luck!
05.2010 Bob's film DINNER RUSH was included in Leonard Maitlin's latest book "151 Best Movies You've Never Seen"! Thanks Leonard :) If you haven't seen DINNER RUSH, you should!
04.2010 Bob's SVA project class is hard at work editing their films in preparation for their May 11th screening.
03.2010 “I became an art director after I graduated many, many years ago. I became a director of commercial films many, many years ago. I was in at the beginning of the music video craze as a director many, many years ago. I was asked to teach at SVA by Silas Rhodes many, many years ago. And I’ve continued with all of those things ever since” recalls Bob Giraldi at his Murray Street studio. “Then about ten years ago I told Silas that I wouldn’t mind teaching a short film course to advertising students. This had nothing to do with selling, nothing to do with music video or experimental film, nothing to do with animation or documentary; it was going to be about crafting a narrative that would involve casting, directing, editing, finishing, and getting a film ready for a festival.” - Excerpt from a recent SVA interview with Bob Giraldi. The complete interview will be published soon.
03.2010 Bob Giraldi is currently holding the first round of applicants interview for his new SVA MPS Live Action Short film program. Get more info HERE
02.2010 Bob Giraldi's short film Honey Trap has been selected to be screened on March 11-12 and 13 at the Audience Choice Screenings of the 6th NYC Downtown Short Film Festival. The NY Downtown Short Film Festival holds bi-monthly screenings at which the audience is screened 4-5 films, given ballots and votes, those films that receive the highest votes at these screenings will then be screened at our annual Festival in April 2010.
02.2010 Ferrara and Company tabs Bob Giraldi to direct their latest campaign for FOSTER GRANT staring the ever ageless, sexy and stunning Raquel Welch. Filming will begin Feb 2010.
02.2010 Bob Giraldi is preparing the second installement of the PZZA CHRONICLES lecture series that will take place at TONDA in February about the Independent film Industry: "Is The Indie Film Biz Really in the Toilet?"
01.2010 Bob Girladi Hosted the first presentation of his PZZA CHRONICLES lecture series at TONDA in the East Village, NYC in partnership with SVA: “Creativity, How to get a creative Idea” by Richard WILDE, Chairman of the SVA Advertising & Graphic Design Dept.
01.2010 Bob Giraldi helms a new campaign for national restaurant chain CHILI'S with advertising agency Hill Holiday based in Boston. Influenced by Giraldi's popular feature, DINNER RUSH, a style approach to the brand is created.
01.2010 In the Chicago Sun Times, Richard Roeper named DINNER RUSH one of his favorite 100 films of the decade.
01.2010 Bob Giraldi completes his latest short film The Grey Coat. Wintery New York is the scene of the story about a hardworking immigrant Korean family being extorted by two local detectives and the emergence of an unlikely hero. View the film here.
12.2009 The founders of StarChefs.com, Bob Giraldi, Patti Greaney and Fern Berman have a new feature for hungry consumers on their mobile devices – RUSH HOUR MEALS -- fast, faster and fastest recipes as an iPhone/Ipod Touch App. Celebrated contributors include esteemed chefs & authors such as Jacques Pepin, Mark Bittman, Jacques Torres, Betty Fussell, and Dorie Greenspan. The App is available to download for free and will soon be available on other phone mobile platforms.
12.2009 Bob Giraldi was interviewed by SHOOT magazine and featured in their PRELUDE TO 50TH ANNIVERSARY SERIES Issue about Perspectives And Context On How The Advertising Industry Has Evolved As SHOOT Approaches A Milestone. SHOOT article here.
12.2009 NY based ad agency Vigilante and Bob Giraldi create the newest ABOVE THE INFLUENCE anit-drug youth campaign. Slated to air in 2010
12.2009 The latest ASPEN DENTAL campaign gets the star treatment by Bob Giraldi as he teams with Ohio based Stern Advertising. Bob Giraldi and Stern Advertising have previously worked worked together on numerous campaigns for KAY JEWELERS
11.2009 Bob Giraldi finished shooting the short film "the Grey Coat" The 20 minutes feature filmed on RED HD Camera is now in Post Production at Giraldi's Tribeca studio in New York City
06.2009 Bob Giraldi is in the pre-production stage of the short film titled "The Grey Coat." Taking place in the outskirts of Chinatown, this story is about a hardworking, immigrant Korean family being extorted by two dirty cops and the emergence of an unlikely hero.
05.2009 Bob Giraldi's 2009 School of Visual Arts Project Class showed their films as part of a juried screening at SVA Theatre on 23rd Street. Highly acknowledged professionals in the entertainment industry, including Hamptons International Film Festival programmer David Nugent, screenwriter Alex Tanaka, and actor Mark Margolis, served as the judges. At the event, titled Rigor and Relevance: Life in the City in the Strangest of Times, SVA awarded scholarships to the student directors of the top two films.
05.2009 The latest interviews with Bob Giraldi where he discusses his two interests, film and food, are featured in Black Book Magazine, The New York Observer and Time.
05.2009 “Second Guessing Grandma” is accepted to play in June at the 23rd Festival Mix Milano Teatro Strehler and in August at the 15th Sarajevo Film festival.
05.2009 Dennis Loonan joins Giraldi Media as Head of Sales for the East and West Coast.
04.2009 Bob Giraldi will be chairing the newest graduate department at the School of Visual Arts, MPS Live Action Short Film, slated to begin in Fall 2010. This groundbreaking program is the first graduate course of study in the United States to focus specifically on the short film medium. Under the guidance of Bob Giraldi and other leading industry professionals, students are given hands-on experience in every aspect of short filmmaking: from the conception of an idea, to the creation of a shooting script, to casting, budgeting, directing, filming, editing, and marketing the final product.
03.2009 To celebrate its grand opening, Bob Giraldi used Tonda’s kickoff party as the backdrop for the restaurant’s premier commercial called “Leaving Naples”. “Leaving Naples” tells the tale of a Neapolitan chef in pursuit of debuting his acclaimed pizza in the Big Apple despite his mother’s concerns. In the coming months, it will be seen on the New York City cabs’ television monitors.
02.2009 In collaboration with Carol H. Williams Advertising, Giraldi directs the newest Lactaid commercial titled “Chef” starring celebrity chef Delilah Winder's.
12.2008 Giraldi’s short film “Second Guessing Grandma” was hand selected to be in the new Google/YouTube Screening Room. During holiday time, 2008, it was rated as the #3 video on all of YouTube.
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12.2008 GLAAD hosts the 20th Annual New York GLAAD Media Awards Kick-Off event, featuring a screening of "Second Guessing Grandma", directed by Bob Giraldi, at the Viacom Building in Times Square.
12.2008 Bob Giraldi shoots the first spot for the new Foster Grant Sunglasses campaign, starring the legendary beauty Raquel Welch.
12.2008 Bob Giraldi works with Burrell Communications, directing "Pounds", the latest McDonald's commercial starring NBA great, Dwight Howard and WNBA great,
Candice Parker.
11.2008 A venture into mobile technology outofhand.com is launched as a partnership between School of Visual Arts and Giraldi. SHOOT MAGAZINE
09.2008 Using the Red Digital Technology, Bob Giraldi returned to his roots by completing a cross platform music video piece for the influential music duo from Japan Dreams Come True. Panasonic will be presenting Giraldi's work through TV, Internet and large OLED, LCD, PDP, DLP displays at Panasonic venues and events. |
