Production Designer
Marco Belluzzi is a production designer, creative and art director with over 40 years of experience across cinema, advertising, theatre, television, fashion and large-scale live events
Graduated at Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti (NABA) in Milan and formed within the ateliers of Teatro alla Scala, he developed his practice at the intersection of artistic vision and technical craftsmanship, learning production design as both cultural language and built matter.
His career began in theatre and opera, with projects staged in major European venues, before expanding into cinema and commercial production during the formative years of Italian film and advertising.
He has since designed sets and environments for feature films, television productions, music videos, fashion events and more than 200 commercials, collaborating with directors, producers and brands to create spaces that support narrative, performance and visual identity.
Based between Rome and Milan, today Marco continues to work across disciplines, shaping spaces where craft, story and image converge and where production design becomes an essential narrative force.
Along his path, during his years at Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, Marco met Anna Ranci Ortigosa.
Married for years, they work together on most projects and share the same passion and energy for envisioning spaces, making up atmospheres and building new worlds.
Scenography's function of support and sublimation of the story often depends on its delicate balance between real and surreal.
Berlin Film Festival 2011
Whatsoeverly / Qualunquemente
"Cetto is happy to settle back into his Italian home designed in tasteless post-baroque opulence by p.d. Marco Belluzzi.
Belluzzi’s sets and Roberto Chiocchi’s eye-popping costumes, the latter incrementally overwhelming the color palette with purple and gold, are some of the pic’s most enjoyably comical elements "
Alongside his professional practice, Marco Belluzzi has been involved in teaching and mentoring younger generations of filmmakers and designers. He has taught Production Design at the Istituto Europeo di Design (IED) School of Cinema, where he shared with students a practical, hands-on approach rooted in real sets, real constraints and real collaboration on set.
“Marco is not only an extraordinary teacher but he's also a person of great humanity. Attending his lessons taught me a lot, while giving me the opportunity to deal directly with a great professional"
Andrea Dones
former IED student, now Director and Head of Video Production at Giorgio Armani
