Brando Quilici was born in Buenos Aires. He is the son of Folco, documentary director and writer, and Laura Grisi, minimalist artist. He lives and studied in Rome, Italy. At the age of eight, he wrote and illustrated a book entitled “Let’s Go to Africa”, the diary of a two-month trip around Africa. It won the 1966 International “Critici in Erba” Prize, Bologna. Between 1979 and 1982 Quilici produced and directed numerous series for RAIUNO, the Italian public television network. From 1990 to 1993, he produced and directed “The Arctic”, which won a Golden Palm for Best Television Series at the International Festival of Antibes, France. Quilici has directed many Discovery Channel programs, among them: “The Himalayas”, for which award-winning composer Phillip Glass wrote the soundtrack; “The Andes”, a finalist at the Banff Film Festival; and the series “Deserts”, which was the winner in the Best Writing Category at the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival in September 2001 and also winner of the Young People Award at the Jules Verne Film Festival in Paris in 2001. His latest film for the Discovery Channel, “Ultimate Guide: Iceman”, tells the story of Otzi, a frozen Stone Age man trapped inside a glacier for 5,300 years on the Italian Austrian border. He is currently working on “Ultimate Guide: Volcanoes” a one-hour special for the Discovery Channel, which shows various volcanologists from around the world, trying to prove their theories on how to predict eruptions. He collaborates with various magazines in Italy, including Airone, Epoca and Panorama. To know more about the principle programs produced and directed by Brando Quilici click here.

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