Carlo Massarella

Emmy award-winning Series Producer & Director CARLO MASSARELLA has devised and worked on a wide range of innovative and successful science, technology and history series for British, American and Canadian television channels including the BBC, The Discovery Channel, National Geographic, PBS, Channel 4 and Five.

These include THE DAY THE WORLD TOOK OFF, the critically acclaimed six-part series for Channel 4 tracing the technological and geographical roots of Industrialisation back 10,000 years to mark the Millennium, THE SECRETS OF LIFE (C4) with Prof. John Sulston exploring the biology of human development, VOYAGE IN SPACE & TIME (C4) with Dr Monica Grady charting the origins, evolution and future of the Cosmos and several editions of EQUINOX.

He Produced and Directed three films in the multi-award winning, critically acclaimed PBS/Channel 4 series, ‘DNA’ marking the 50th Anniversary of the Double Helix in 2003 winning an ABSW Award and EMMY for ‘DNA : The Human Race’ - a definitive account of the Human Genome Project with contributions from all the leading scientists involved and former President Bill Clinton.

He devised and Series Produced four season’s of the hit engineering show MONSTER MOVES for Five & Discovery Channel exploring the engineering challenges of relocating large structures, vehicles and machines. Most recently he devised and Series Produced two series of the landmark CGI series BIG, BIGGER, BIGGEST for Five & National Geographic charting the engineering innovations that enabled superstructures to evolve in size and scale.

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Monday 26 October 2009, 7.00pm Shortwave Cinema, London
Science on Screen – not testing enough?



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