ADRIAN PACINI
Storyteller ♦︎ Filmmaker
ABOUT
Adrian Pacini is an award-winning director, producer and digital content creator. He is a recent graduate from NYU Tisch School of the Arts and has a multitude of experience in project management, creative development, and digital marketing. From period pieces to sci-fi fantasy, Adrian’s work has been featured in NBC, FOX, and The Wall Street Journal Life & Arts cover.
He has served as Senior Video Content Producer on a number of live event projects with Ziff Davis (formerly Mom Media) with major guest interviewees like Michael Strahan and Kristen Bell. He has also worked on major PR initiatives for clients such as Dove’s Real Beauty campaign, Best Buy’s family-focused initiatives, and Google’s safety tools.
Adrian has also worked in groundbreaking technological and filmmaking spaces like WLAB’s AR / VR filmmaking studios and AI filmmaking / marketing. He is very excited to keep developing his creative scope into the future of filmmaking technology and digital storytelling.
DIRECTING
THE SOUND OF LIGHT
Director, Producer (2024) - Managing a complex, period-set science fiction production with a cast & crew of 40+ people from September 2023 - present.
“When an orphaned boy is encountered by visitors from a distant world, he faces an impossible choice and the risk of losing his new found family, forever.”
TALE OF THE TRAVELER
Director, Producer (2022) - Managed a cast and crew of 20+ people over 4 months to produce a complex sci-fi drama.
“The Traveler, lost to time, must make a final sacrifice and come to terms with his harrowing past.”
DEAR JUNE
Director, Producer (2022) - Managed a meticulous war-time period drama with a cast and crew of 15+ people over just 4 weeks of allotted time.
“In 1944 New York City, Elizabeth and June Holden are left to run their household as their parents are occupied with the war. As vignettes of life occur, the two girls navigate the world around them and juggle the very different pressures they feel from the world. Truths are hidden, lies are revealed, and all comes crashing down in the kitchen.”
PRODUCING
LITERALLY ME
Senior Producer (2023) - Managing 7 shooting locations, crew of 30, and cast of 25 over 9 months.
“A struggling actor stumbles upon a part he thinks will save his career and dire financial situation. To get the part, he decided to fully immerse himself in the comic behaviors and personality of the ‘Sigma Male’ character with catastrophic results.”
AMNESIA
Producer (2024) - Managing 5 shooting locations, crew of 22, and cast of 9 over 5 months.
“A young man, OLIVER VILLIERS (27), wakes to the gruesome sight of his dead girlfriend, KATY FEIG (26), and struggles to recollect the events of the night before. Oliver's lifelong friend, THOMAS GEMEO (27), shows up at his apartment, and the two discuss the best course of action.”
WRONG ANSWER, KATHY
Senior Producer (2023) - Mmanaging 6 shooting locations, crew of 25, and cast of 11 over 3 months.
“During the filming of his last episode, a troubled Game Show host, crippled by the cancellation of his show due to his addiction, has a drug induced rampaging meltdown on live TV.”
MARKETING
Senior Video Content Producer with Ziff Davis (previously Mom Media)
Google’s safety tools campaign.
Lead Talent with Google
Internal commercial for Google Maps expansion initiatives
DOVE
Senior Video Content Producer with Ziff Davis (previously Mom Media)
Dove’s “Real Beauty” campaign and “Girls Unstoppable” campaign.
BEST BUY
Senior Video Content Producer with Ziff Davis (previously Mom Media)
Best Buy’s family-focused initiatives.
VIRTUAL / AI
VIRTUAL PRODUCTION SCENE
Directed / Produced a scene on a virtual production LED volume dome at WLAB’s production studio. (2024)
Simultaneously coordinated the development of a virtual environment, led the manufacturing of an alien surgical prop arm, and guided a cast and crew of 25+ people over the course of the production.
ACCOLADES
DEAR JUNE (2022)
SONA (2017)
BEYOND (2016)
