LAST BUT NOT LEAST
Have you ever watched a movie and thought that the plot was great, the storyline brilliant, the casting and the acting outstanding… but still didn’t like it?
That’s because the images were dull, the colors dim, sound too loud or the overall balance wrong… all evidence of poor or non-existent post-production… and certainly nothing ever produced by EDI. Video post-production is a bit of a thankless job because when you do a great job nobody really notices but if you do a bad one it sticks out like a sore thumb.
It is said that there are two phases of filming, first you shoot the film and then you make the film in post-production. It’s an extremely long process, longer than the shooting itself, working with an incredible eye for detail, imaginative mind and a bucket load of patience to get things just perfectly right. Video and sound editing, writing, CGI, recording and re-recording, adding visual and sound effects… the list goes on forever… but with EDI the end result is always stupefying and proof that post-production may be last… but certainly not least!
WHO IS BEHIND
Francesco Grisi
Founder & owner
Francesco Grisi, born in 1971, after scientific studies decides to dedicate himself to his passion: photography. First in Italy, he works with some photographers from Naples, then in 1993 moves to Paris where he begins to collaborate with fashion agency Marilyn Gauthier. After a little time, thanks to his passion for digital images, Francesco starts working for Buf Compagnie which at that time was a start up company, now it's a leader company in VFX field.
During this experience, started in 1994, he first works as compositor and then as supervisor with directors such as Frederic Planchon, Eric Romer, Michel Gondry, David Fincher, on films such as Fight club, The cell, L'anglais et le duc. He also contributed to the opening of Buf Inc., the company's American branch. In 2001, after he married, Francesco and his partner Pasquale Croce decide to focus on the creation of a completely Italian VFX company, trying to boost the limping Italian film market: EDI Effetti Digitali Italiani.
During these 11 years of his Italian enterprise, he collaborated to all the most important Italian films and worked with Academy Award winners and internationally well-known directors such as Gabriele Salvatores, Michelangelo Antononi, Nanni Moretti or national glories such as Alessandro D'Alatri and Paolo Virzì. Francesco is also a great wine and food lover, better if sailing his boat with his family. His dream is to export Italian VFX talents around the World.
