Davide AICARDI, born in Italy in 1976, started his writing career in 2004 with the graphic novel Study 69. He continued with the comic-book series Wrestlers, the subject of The punishment of the Elohims (Martin Mystère – written by Alfredo Castelli) and with 3 volumes of the children's novels series Joe Carrot. For the magazine Mono he wrote the adaptation as graphic novel of Italo Calvino’s I sentieri dei nidi di ragno and the strip-rhyme The alien and Gualtiero. He writed for the comic-book series Mytico!, for the satirical strip Cinemaniacs, and the short story The twist for Rovio’s Angry Birds.
In 2012 he created the comic-book series Extinction Seed (GG Studio) for the American market.
Thanks to this experience, he was approached by the film director Ermanno Olmi for a collaboration in the medium-length Attese collective (Ipotesi Cinema). In 2008 and in 2011 he scripted the short films About Messer Cavè, the artist and A day as many.
He continued writing from 2006 to 2017 for several TV series: Camera Café, Pilots, Don Luca, My Physicians, eBand, Offside, The good morning is seen by the dressing room, Music going and the international Disney's projects Life Bites and The Avatars.
Thanks to his eclecticism he also wrote different international animation series: The extraordinary adventures of Jules Verne, PopPixie, Birds Squad, Spike Team, Veggie’s Gang, Star Key, Glovering, Pasta Freaks, Egyxos, WinxClub and World of Winx for Netflix.
He is author of the candid show Cupid and of the talk show Excuse me, are you in favour or against? In 2008, with Marco Renzi and OGM Animation Studios, he created the animated series Insert Coin, award finalist at Cartoons on the Bay 2009.
He then became copywriter for MTV, scriptwriter of the satirical diary DiventOne 2012 and scriptwriter and supervisor of the web-com Gamers.
Since 2011 he collaborates to the storylines for some MPG Ferrero’s brands.
In 2012 his project My first life (with Marco Renzi) won the Carlo Bixio Award for the best tv series script, and Fang You (with Domenico di Berardino) won the Pitch Me! Cartoons on the bay Award for the best animated series.
His most recent work is the Walt Disney Company’s series Donald Quest.
Currently he collaborates with Sergio Bonelli Publisher and he writes the web-comic Violet for newspaper Repubblica.
Thanks to his accomplishments, Davide was invited to teach screen-play at several schools: the Comics School in Milan, the International Comics School in Naples, the Genoa Comics Accademy in Genova, the Visual School in Albenga (Liguria), and the Sperimental Centre of Cinematography, most important cinema school in Italy.
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