Marco Taloni
- Writer
- Producer
- Director
Marco Taloni was born in Rome-city Italy in 1959 lives in Canada Toronto
for more than 30 years, Canadian citizen, and also lives in Bangkok
Thailand since 2009. Married with Parita Suwanmanee and they have a
child, Brendan. Marco has also a boy from a previous marriage his name
is Edo, and he is pursuing a filmmaker career as a digital designer as well.
Marco Taloni since was 6 showed an interest in entertainment by being very excited to be part of a school's play staging on "Pinocchio" at his elementary school. When was 11 y/o he pushed his friends by creating a story to stage in the street as a game, a play reciting it, following a "script": a special unit assault! With pistols, rifles, bombs, of course toys, he created it and directed. It became a street game among friends for some time. At the age of 14 started to like acting, doing it at home, and practicing, hiding from mom, till one day read an AD of an audition and he went into this theatre to be heard through a 5 minutes script was handed to him just at the very moment. He had to pay a fee to become an associate of the Club of Cinematography, which was also an agent. He has never been called up but in change Marco's school professor asked him to recite such a script in front of the class since she was curious about the fact heard that his student went to an audition. All classmates (where 44), listened, and as well the professor who added a comment such: "...well, at least you had the courage to do it in front of everybody".
After High School Scientific Liceum, decided to pursue Engineering, because his father told him always to become a doctor and get a PhD. He went successfully through the third year getting the major in Electronic Systems of Communication, at the same time, working also as an assistant in the father's company which was involved in international businesses of brokerage, financial, and construction. But then Marco met Gianni Cavina, a successful Italian actor and writer. At that time the passion for entertainments became a strong drive. Until that time, meanwhile going to university, also he founded very creative sports and arts centers, that was including Jazz Dance, Body Building, and Martial Arts, eventually also he became a karate martial arts instructor. But at the same time, he went to the Jazz Dance school of Paul Steffen and participated at stages with K. Barrett's school in Rome in the same class as Amy Stewart. Marco has organized public stages for jazz dancers performing and bodybuilders' performances. He was called up to be a director-choreographer for a group of scenes in a public play where was present Isabella Rossellini, and he was introduced to the celebrity as director of that special scene of the play to collect compliments. After that, Marco decided to put on hold the Engineering studies, and he went to participate in the selection to become a student at the Cinecitta's Experimental Center of Cinematography school, and he passed the selection and pursued the school.
Then the meeting with Gianni Cavina was critical, and it was when Mr. Cavina started to perform in "The Beautiful Otero". An Italian-German production for a TV mini-series of 4 hours, that eventually was awarded of Silver Ribbon, in Italy, as best TV series and the main protagonists were Mr. Harvey Keitel and Angela Molina directed by Jose' Maria Sanchez. Marco requested to come over to the set, during the shooting in order to study. Marco Taloni became to officially work in the set of The Beautiful Otero near to Harvey Keitel and Angela Molina. Marco Taloni's work was simple, but it was a great occasion to learn what he was studying at the Experimental Center of Cinematography. Eventually stopped to go to Cinecitta's school, and decided that was much better to keep going to be part of The Beautiful Otero, it was much more exciting, and he could see the reality of a set.
Working in The Beautiful Otero went on full time, and Marco Taloni became very close with Jose' Maria Sanchez, who was also a professional screenwriter much before than to become a director. Mr. Sanchez was delighted to have Marco Taloni as an assistant also in post-production, and it went on for 4 months, experiencing, sounds mixing, assembling, Dubbing remaining all day "trapped" in a 3 by 2-meter room with Mr. Sanchez smoking like a chimney and the technicians smoking cigars eventually Marco Taloni was a bit smoker; after the prime of The Beautiful Otero, he was in a Hotel room sleeping, and suddenly he got an attack of asthma, he couldn't breathe. Since then, he quitted the small smoking habit and avoided smoking places.
After that, he met Silvano Ippoliti that was the director of photography, he was asked to direct a small documentary of a feudal town, for educational purposes. Marco Taloni was requested as collaborator for the film.
After that, he participated as a collaborator in a Video Music directed by Ivana Massetti, which was a head presentation of a TV prime program "Domenica In", in Italy.
Successively was officially called up to become part of the pre-production on a new series TV (Face for rent - Facciaffitasi), that year Marco Taloni became officially an assistant for the film working with Jose' Maria Sanchez for the cast selection, scouting locations, recruiting extra, set coordinator, actor supervising, extra management, also directing scenes of secondary importance. In that year also Marco Taloni was participating as an assistant during the script review meetings, among other professional screenwriters. These last 2 years Marco had the fortune to read many scripts that Mr. Sanchez handed it to him and had chances to listen suggestions and tips and tricks how to write a screenplay. Mr. Taloni at this time started to write with passion and dedication, meanwhile still was working in the series TV shooting. He had a great chance to have a great guide, from Mr. Sanchez and became Taloni' s mentor.
Something happened. Marco Taloni, at the age of 25, felt overwhelmed by the duties and responsibilities gotten shooting the film and fell into crisis. During a summer break of a week, he decided to disappear without further notice, cutting phones off, (no emails because the internet didn't exist yet). He went hidden in a sort of limbo, in order to escape from that stress went through till then.
After that decided to go back to University and pursued a specialization in computer sciences. Also he attended a business school to acquire a certification in Business Management. For many years worked first, as a sales agent, then went into marketing, business management, and business project management, internationally. At the same time moved to Canada and then started to work with the South East of Asia, working on several projects, from clothing distributions, food and beverage, constructions, and energy. He seemed wanted to follow the father's suggestions.
At a certain point, between successes and failures in his endeavors in business, and meanwhile increasing his skill in business analysis, project management, internet programming, and working to enhance the businesses capabilities of enterprises, he used to go to movie theaters as little as 3 times per week, watching movies arising his interest, also buying Video Cassettes first, followed successively by DVDs. It became an escape, his mind was completely absorbed and he could reproduce in his mind techniques of filming, imagining it how they had made it. There have been movies he saw, in the theaters, 11 times, he seemed like a hungry dog eating a meal. He wrote an innumerable quantity of short stories, and plots, never made read (except to his mentor Mr. Sanchez and few friend) and never went public. Eventually Marco just trashed them out.
He suggested his son pursue a University of the School of Arts related to digital filming, and Taloni Junior is actually graduating and also working by directing short stories. But when all seemed to become history, one day Mr. Taloni senior, woke up and decided to go back to write. He started to write a short story and the one seemed to be a book, related to the real truth and the truth behind everyday appearances. It would be such a focus on human beliefs in everyday activities, and their differences among strata of populations in the world which he took as an example, especially from Italy, North America, and South East of Asia. Highlighting the drive makes the people move around and for setting their own scope in daily life. This writing speaks about anger, feelings, desires, and religions, and attempts speculation around religions and how they influence the mental status of populations, and why and for what. It doesn't want to be a scientific discovery; it just is a simple point to beliefs and goals aroused in human beings in different cultures and social strata. It embraces at a glance the deficiencies and the misinterpretations among people and also with their "administrators" that often is what in general creates collisions and pain losing the real concept of the meaning of the word "develop" in a modern society.
Then in Thailand, came a series of inspirations to write Johnny The Mule, that is a story of a man born in equivocal circumstances that make him go through an ordeal of surviving for a few years of his life, without meeting the meaning of love or family in common sense of normality, neither knowing the meaning of bad and good but only through his instinct that fortunately was intact and the truth comes out. Such reality comes to light through a pure love for a Thai-Akha Psychologists, at first unwittingly grow and bring the twos in a clash of differences, but by that generating the enlightenment for Johnny The Mule decided to seek redemption in his unique way.
In development also there is Mules that is an extension of the concept of the Johnny The Mule script is made it for a feature film, meanwhile Mules is for a series TV. Another script in development is Sexually Addict: redemption, inspired by true stories, revealing the truth of sexual addicts in their ordinary but paradoxical life. BILL and PLAH, is an enchanting series of stories of a "multicultural couple", which these days becomes a fact more common than ever, and the stories, made for a series TV, depict the daily original life of this couple composed by a Western man and Asian woman that conduct a routine made funny and sometimes 'nasty' family intrigues happen by a confrontation of their differences in their habits and beliefs.
Marco Taloni since was 6 showed an interest in entertainment by being very excited to be part of a school's play staging on "Pinocchio" at his elementary school. When was 11 y/o he pushed his friends by creating a story to stage in the street as a game, a play reciting it, following a "script": a special unit assault! With pistols, rifles, bombs, of course toys, he created it and directed. It became a street game among friends for some time. At the age of 14 started to like acting, doing it at home, and practicing, hiding from mom, till one day read an AD of an audition and he went into this theatre to be heard through a 5 minutes script was handed to him just at the very moment. He had to pay a fee to become an associate of the Club of Cinematography, which was also an agent. He has never been called up but in change Marco's school professor asked him to recite such a script in front of the class since she was curious about the fact heard that his student went to an audition. All classmates (where 44), listened, and as well the professor who added a comment such: "...well, at least you had the courage to do it in front of everybody".
After High School Scientific Liceum, decided to pursue Engineering, because his father told him always to become a doctor and get a PhD. He went successfully through the third year getting the major in Electronic Systems of Communication, at the same time, working also as an assistant in the father's company which was involved in international businesses of brokerage, financial, and construction. But then Marco met Gianni Cavina, a successful Italian actor and writer. At that time the passion for entertainments became a strong drive. Until that time, meanwhile going to university, also he founded very creative sports and arts centers, that was including Jazz Dance, Body Building, and Martial Arts, eventually also he became a karate martial arts instructor. But at the same time, he went to the Jazz Dance school of Paul Steffen and participated at stages with K. Barrett's school in Rome in the same class as Amy Stewart. Marco has organized public stages for jazz dancers performing and bodybuilders' performances. He was called up to be a director-choreographer for a group of scenes in a public play where was present Isabella Rossellini, and he was introduced to the celebrity as director of that special scene of the play to collect compliments. After that, Marco decided to put on hold the Engineering studies, and he went to participate in the selection to become a student at the Cinecitta's Experimental Center of Cinematography school, and he passed the selection and pursued the school.
Then the meeting with Gianni Cavina was critical, and it was when Mr. Cavina started to perform in "The Beautiful Otero". An Italian-German production for a TV mini-series of 4 hours, that eventually was awarded of Silver Ribbon, in Italy, as best TV series and the main protagonists were Mr. Harvey Keitel and Angela Molina directed by Jose' Maria Sanchez. Marco requested to come over to the set, during the shooting in order to study. Marco Taloni became to officially work in the set of The Beautiful Otero near to Harvey Keitel and Angela Molina. Marco Taloni's work was simple, but it was a great occasion to learn what he was studying at the Experimental Center of Cinematography. Eventually stopped to go to Cinecitta's school, and decided that was much better to keep going to be part of The Beautiful Otero, it was much more exciting, and he could see the reality of a set.
Working in The Beautiful Otero went on full time, and Marco Taloni became very close with Jose' Maria Sanchez, who was also a professional screenwriter much before than to become a director. Mr. Sanchez was delighted to have Marco Taloni as an assistant also in post-production, and it went on for 4 months, experiencing, sounds mixing, assembling, Dubbing remaining all day "trapped" in a 3 by 2-meter room with Mr. Sanchez smoking like a chimney and the technicians smoking cigars eventually Marco Taloni was a bit smoker; after the prime of The Beautiful Otero, he was in a Hotel room sleeping, and suddenly he got an attack of asthma, he couldn't breathe. Since then, he quitted the small smoking habit and avoided smoking places.
After that, he met Silvano Ippoliti that was the director of photography, he was asked to direct a small documentary of a feudal town, for educational purposes. Marco Taloni was requested as collaborator for the film.
After that, he participated as a collaborator in a Video Music directed by Ivana Massetti, which was a head presentation of a TV prime program "Domenica In", in Italy.
Successively was officially called up to become part of the pre-production on a new series TV (Face for rent - Facciaffitasi), that year Marco Taloni became officially an assistant for the film working with Jose' Maria Sanchez for the cast selection, scouting locations, recruiting extra, set coordinator, actor supervising, extra management, also directing scenes of secondary importance. In that year also Marco Taloni was participating as an assistant during the script review meetings, among other professional screenwriters. These last 2 years Marco had the fortune to read many scripts that Mr. Sanchez handed it to him and had chances to listen suggestions and tips and tricks how to write a screenplay. Mr. Taloni at this time started to write with passion and dedication, meanwhile still was working in the series TV shooting. He had a great chance to have a great guide, from Mr. Sanchez and became Taloni' s mentor.
Something happened. Marco Taloni, at the age of 25, felt overwhelmed by the duties and responsibilities gotten shooting the film and fell into crisis. During a summer break of a week, he decided to disappear without further notice, cutting phones off, (no emails because the internet didn't exist yet). He went hidden in a sort of limbo, in order to escape from that stress went through till then.
After that decided to go back to University and pursued a specialization in computer sciences. Also he attended a business school to acquire a certification in Business Management. For many years worked first, as a sales agent, then went into marketing, business management, and business project management, internationally. At the same time moved to Canada and then started to work with the South East of Asia, working on several projects, from clothing distributions, food and beverage, constructions, and energy. He seemed wanted to follow the father's suggestions.
At a certain point, between successes and failures in his endeavors in business, and meanwhile increasing his skill in business analysis, project management, internet programming, and working to enhance the businesses capabilities of enterprises, he used to go to movie theaters as little as 3 times per week, watching movies arising his interest, also buying Video Cassettes first, followed successively by DVDs. It became an escape, his mind was completely absorbed and he could reproduce in his mind techniques of filming, imagining it how they had made it. There have been movies he saw, in the theaters, 11 times, he seemed like a hungry dog eating a meal. He wrote an innumerable quantity of short stories, and plots, never made read (except to his mentor Mr. Sanchez and few friend) and never went public. Eventually Marco just trashed them out.
He suggested his son pursue a University of the School of Arts related to digital filming, and Taloni Junior is actually graduating and also working by directing short stories. But when all seemed to become history, one day Mr. Taloni senior, woke up and decided to go back to write. He started to write a short story and the one seemed to be a book, related to the real truth and the truth behind everyday appearances. It would be such a focus on human beliefs in everyday activities, and their differences among strata of populations in the world which he took as an example, especially from Italy, North America, and South East of Asia. Highlighting the drive makes the people move around and for setting their own scope in daily life. This writing speaks about anger, feelings, desires, and religions, and attempts speculation around religions and how they influence the mental status of populations, and why and for what. It doesn't want to be a scientific discovery; it just is a simple point to beliefs and goals aroused in human beings in different cultures and social strata. It embraces at a glance the deficiencies and the misinterpretations among people and also with their "administrators" that often is what in general creates collisions and pain losing the real concept of the meaning of the word "develop" in a modern society.
Then in Thailand, came a series of inspirations to write Johnny The Mule, that is a story of a man born in equivocal circumstances that make him go through an ordeal of surviving for a few years of his life, without meeting the meaning of love or family in common sense of normality, neither knowing the meaning of bad and good but only through his instinct that fortunately was intact and the truth comes out. Such reality comes to light through a pure love for a Thai-Akha Psychologists, at first unwittingly grow and bring the twos in a clash of differences, but by that generating the enlightenment for Johnny The Mule decided to seek redemption in his unique way.
In development also there is Mules that is an extension of the concept of the Johnny The Mule script is made it for a feature film, meanwhile Mules is for a series TV. Another script in development is Sexually Addict: redemption, inspired by true stories, revealing the truth of sexual addicts in their ordinary but paradoxical life. BILL and PLAH, is an enchanting series of stories of a "multicultural couple", which these days becomes a fact more common than ever, and the stories, made for a series TV, depict the daily original life of this couple composed by a Western man and Asian woman that conduct a routine made funny and sometimes 'nasty' family intrigues happen by a confrontation of their differences in their habits and beliefs.
