I dream my painting and I paint my dream.
Vincent van Gogh
mr Arkadin Film is a dynamic Independent Production Company. Founded by director Domenico Ciolfi in 2004, Mr Arkadin Film is based in the Heart of Italy: Faenza. In a small amount of time, attention and recognition were gained by specializing in creating and producing films, TV advertisements and TV formats. Focus on projects is the core of the Company which entertains research and experimentation on new forms of story-telling and language techniques. This resulted in popular and award-winning programming, light entertainment, reality, sports, music and travel, and now also expanding into digital media. The secret of Mr Arkadin Film‘s success
can be found in the group of very experienced and very gifted researchers, creatives, designers, visual engineering and producers and offers a fresh and creative approach to film and television making. The company is active in all aspects of visual communication.
Mr Arkadin Film realized innovative commercial content and formats for numerous prestigious clients in Italy including Fiat, Infostrada, Jaguar, New Holland and Intesa San Paolo Bank. The Company works with main Italian TV networks including Rai, Mediaset, Sky, DeaKids, Ballandi Entertainment. Mr Arkadin has created and produced Films,
Tv shows, TV formats and series with excellent reviews form critics and general public, collecting a number of international awards.
All begins with an idea, inspiration , a sparkle,
that can come at any moment and any place.
While sipping coffee or driving and trying to recollect the name of a familiar track on the radio. While listening to your daughter’s tale of the day or at night when you can’t sleep.
The idea might emerge from a circumstance or random event, some may even give credence to a mystic genesis. Whatever the origin, accomplishing the idea is the true challenge. This is our strength.
This is our speciality
per day
to present day
per month
per years
I dream my painting and I paint my dream.
Vincent van Gogh
The pictures are there, and you just take them.
Robert Capa
Our work begins with project design, proceeds to development, up to final product creation. Thanks to team competence we are able to follow every step of the creative idea’s progress, whether it’s TV advertisement, TV formats or a feature film, for us, everything revolves around the idea.
The greatest ideas lead to best final products. In these years we have had the honor of working with leading international Companies and Brands. We pride ourselves in being chosen for the high quality of our ideas and the ability to achieve them. We have completed numerousadvertising campaigns characterized by the audacity of visual language and a merging of diversified filming techniques, from smartphones to 4k. Our Ad campaigns stood out for the ability to combine, in perfect alchemy, classic and experimental language.
Our final goal: to better serve an original strong idea, our protagonist.
In collaboration with Zeranta Edutainment, Mr Arkadin Film created
The Adventures of Sally, an international award-winner children’s television series. The series helps children develop their social skills.
Each episode’s storyline emphasizes essential values such as honesty, responsibility, friendship, cooperation, self esteem, respect for feelings and property, and more. The Adventures of Sally also addresses the
importance of issues like savings, recycling, taking care of others, the value of natural resources and entrepreneurship.
We strongly believe in adding educational value to entertainment, for our children and next generations. With this belief we embarked on the creation of Historytelling, an innovative entertainment and in-depth format which narrates events and protagonists that changed the course of History. Success of the first episodes of Historytelling was confirmed through a written agreement with the prestigious The Savings Museum of Turin that adopted this series to teach history and economics to junior high school students. Within entertainment’s fascinating areas, television is crucial for Italian broadcasters, Mr Arkadin Film worked as protagonist on the most successful italian Tv Shows in the last few years.
Domenico Ciolfi directed Viva Radio 2 minuti with Rosario Fiorello (broadcaster RaiUno), Fiorello Tg24 (broadcaster Sky), and more.
In children’s television series: Adriana e Tino and Radio Crock’n Dolls (broadcaster Sky and DeaKids) in which Mr Arkadin Film was involved, in addition to directing, in project design and post production.
In Feature Films (movies and television) Mr Arkadin Film presented several productions including Passaggio a Vuoto, Mercurio and the award-winning short movie Figure di Passaggio.
What we do
Creativity takes courage.
Henri Matisse