Management

Luca, with his innovative energy and desire for challenge, is the driving force of Lux Vide.

He is married to Paola Lucantoni, Law Professor at Tor Vergata University in Rome, and they have 6 children. He loves his family and his country, Italy.

Born in Rome in 1964, he graduated in Political Science at La Sapienza University of Rome. He started off his career working in advertising for Italy’stop agencies and trend-setting advertising production companies.

In 1994, he started as Associate Producer in Lux Vide, where he produced the international TV series “The Bible”. In 2002, he became Head of Production, taking in charge the entire cycle of production, from development to post-production. In 2013 he was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Lux Vide.

He produced over 100 projects, including Tv-movies, series and mini-series, such as War and Peace, Anna Karenina, Coco Chanel with Shirley McLaine, the longest-running Italian Tv series Don Matteo, I Medici – Masters of Florence, starring Richard Madden and Dustin Hoffman, Devils starring Patrick Dempsey and Alessandro Borghi, Leonardo starring Aidan Turner and Freddie Highmore and DOC, the highest rated series in the last thirteen years in Italy, sold all over the world.

High-profile executive with excellent industry experience, Valerio brings to Lux Vide a wide and strategic vision, negotiation skills and team-making competence.

He graduated in Law and started his professional career in RAI in 1988 at the Personnel Department and then moved on to industrial relations and press staff management.

Between 1998 and 2000 he is responsible for Personnel and Management of Key Resources, until he becomes Director of Human Resources. 

In 2006, he is appointed Vice Director of TV Resources and then becoming in 2011 Director, when the management of tenders, business acquisitions and RAI fiction contracts are added to the previous responsibilities.

In 2013 he held the position of Director of Human Resources and Organization at RAI, a position he holds until 2016 when he moves to ISTAT as Head of the Data Collection, Methodologies, ICT and Communications.

In 2019 he was Chief Corporate Office of Sparkle, the global operator of the TIM Group, the first supplier of international wholesale services in Italy and among the top ten in the world.

In 2020, he joined Lux Vide as Chief Corporate Officer.

Daniele believes in teamwork and knows how to build strong relationships between all team members, from directors to runners.

He started out in Italian and international cinema with directors such as Ermanno Olmi, Marco Bellocchio, Gianni Amelio and Damiano Damiani. In the nineties, he moved to television production, working on products including La Piovra, Marshal Rocca and Commesse.

Fifteen years ago, he joined Lux Vide, where he is responsible of the conception, supervision and management of productions and co-productions. His approach has reshaped how series are developed optimizing and innovating the whole production process.

The focus on organization and the choice of an in-studio approach have enabled Daniele to streamline the production process. As Lux Vide Head of Production, he has been instrumental in successes such as Don Matteo, Coco Chanel, Augustine, Anna Karenina, Mary of Nazareth, The Boss Hunt, War and Peace, One step from Heaven and Come Dio Ci Aiuti.

An aspiring journalist and novelist, Elena Bucaccio decided that writing would be her profession since her university days. Then, thanks to a RAI television writing course, she got into show- business and discovered that television storytelling was her world.

She wrote La Città dei Matti, a miniseries about Basaglia’s story, and Altri tempi, about the adventure of the Merlin law.

With Francesca Archibugi she wrote Romanzo Familiare. A lover of comedy, she tried her hand with Tutti Pazzi per Amore and Questo Nostro Amore.

Finally, she landed at Lux Vide, participating in international co-productions such as Devils and signing big national hits such as Sister Angela’s Girls and Undercover Mom.

Now, she doesn’t just write she wants to help others to do it. 

Since 1998 in Lux Vide, she works as story editor on Don Matteo, Sister Angela’s Girls, Love in Action, Under Cover Mom and on international projects such as War and Peace and Anna Karenina.  

She loves working on long running series, shows that become part of the viewers life. She is Delegate Producer on DOC and since 2020 Head of Local Development.

Luisa loves creativity and pragmatism. 

She believes that to tell good stories on TV creativity and culture are as essential as people management skills. For this reason, after studying Philosophy and gaining a PhD in Linguistics and Communications, she completed a Media Management course in New York and a Showrunner Program in Los Angeles, learning to become a screenwriter and a creative producer. 

She worked in the writers’ rooms of some of the most successful Italian TV series, Don Matteo, Sister Angela’s Girls, Made in Italy.

With more than a decade of professional experience in the creative industry as an editor, development executive and producer, Valentina has a passion for fostering diverse talent and telling relevant stories.

During the past fifteen years she has moved from Rome to Los Angeles and she is currently living in Madrid.

Valentina is a graduate of the Università Cattolica di Milano where she earned a Master on Film and TV Screenwriting. Soon after she joined Lux Vide as an Assistant Story Editor on John Paul II’s biopic and the miniseries adaptation of War and Peace.

It was the beginning of a professional journey that culminated with the production of the feature film “As White as milk, as Red as blood”, based on the novel of the same title.

Valentina is very excited to be back at Lux Vide and lead the Podcas Team to help identity and develop unique stories for a compelling and fast-growing market.

Rosario is a work athlete whose professionalism is centred on passion, consistency, method and courage.

He brings bold curiosity and determination to Lux Vide, inspired by the words of the visionary Francis Ford Coppola: “The best way to predict the future is to invent it”.

Having graduated in film history and criticism, Rosario began his career at Ermanno Olmi’s Ipotesi Cinema and worked in post-production at major production companies. From 1998 to 2003, he was Film Editing and Restoration Manager at Titanus, heading the re-release of great classics of Italian cinema in conjunction with the Italian National Film Archive and Bologna Film Archive.

Dedicated to the technological innovation of post-production processes, Rosario has led the Lux Vide Post-Production Department since 2004.

Marco is avant-garde, overarching vision of Lux Vide’s different departments. An acute observer and admirer of the TV series world, he anticipates trends and achieves concrete results.

A graduate in Economic History, his passion for television led him to choose a career in the audiovisual industry, initially at a number of independent production companies before moving into broadcasting at Fox International Channels Italy in 2007. He subsequently headed the Turner Channels in Italy, between 2014 and 2017.

With 20 years of industry experience in TV Production, Content Management, Programming & Acquisition, Marketing, Digital Marketing and TV Branding Strategies, he joined Lux Vide to lead Business Development & Co-productions, developing the marketing and sales strategies for our Italian and international markets and managing the international production business relations.

Manuela, a highly-qualified lawyer, takes care of Lux Vide’s legal department and business affairs, which are increasingly important in our global market.

Driven by a strong passion for law, Manuela graduated with honors from LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome, to then gain a doctorate in Business Law. Having broadened her experience as a Visiting Scholar at Pennsylvania State University, she started an academic career at LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome and then the University of Calabria.

Manuela complements her intense professional experience with academic activities. A partner of a major Rome law firm until 2013, she joined Lux Vide as Legal Affairs Manager in October 2015 and has been a board member of the company Film Factory Srl since February 2018.