Management
Solid tradition, receptiveness to innovation, Italian creativity and international vision are the keys to Lux Vide’s success.
Matilde Bernabei
FOUNDER & ONORARY PRESIDENT
Matilde, with her energy and passion for life, is the soul of Lux Vide. Curious and intuitive, she’s always busy creating new projects.
Setting out on her career path at an early age, Matilde had already been working as a journalist for the weekly magazine Panorama when, at the age of 21, she joined ASIP, a company engaged in technical cooperation with developing countries. After three years, she was appointed General Secretary, gaining experience that took her to Montedison. Here, at the age of just 26, she headed the employment programme for industrial cities in Southern Italy, becoming the youngest woman executive of an industrial group in Italy.
In 1984, she was appointed Strategy and New Business Director of Iniziativa Me.Ta., the Montedison Group holding company for the service sector and diversification, contributing to turn it into Italy’s third-largest holding company in only three years. In 1987, she became the Managing Director of the newspaper “Il Messaggero”. It was this experience that took her to become one of the founders of Lux Vide, where she is currently President, personally overseeing the company’s business growth and as a producer of the entire Lux library.
Anticipate, share and innovate are my bywords.
The challenge is to build the new, creating value.
Luca Bernabei
CEO
Luca, with his innovative energy and desire for challenge, is the driving force of Lux Vide.
He is married to Paola Lucantoni, 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’s top 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. He was then 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 15 years in Italy and sold all over the world.
I’m an Italian who’s in love with Italy.
Our stories show the positive in life.
Valerio Fiorespino
CHIEF CORPORATE OFFICER
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 Passani
HEAD OF PRODUCTION
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.
Our production process extends from concept to broadcasting.
We are a small major.
Elena Bucaccio
HEAD OF DRAMA
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.
Sabina Marabini
HEAD OF LOCAL DEVELOPMENT
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.
Benedetta Galbiati
HEAD OF INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Benedetta Galbiati was graduated in Communication Sciences in Bologna, with a thesis in Semiotics of the Text at the chair of Umberto Eco. She began her career in the television sector as an analyst of content and market trends within the Mediaset International TV Observatory.
In 2003 she began her relationship with Endemol Italia as a consultant for the acquisition of scripted formats. In 2004 she became Head of Scripted Acquisitions and Assistant of the Head of Fiction starting to deal also with production; she was a story-editor and producer of sitcoms, at first, and then of prime-time series produced for Rai and Mediaset. In 2018 she was appointed Head of Scripted of Endemol Shine Italy, she re-founded the department giving it editorial lines aligned with the new challenges and opportunities posed by a globalized audiovisual market. Her successes as a producer include “L’Allieva” (2016-2020, 3 seasons) and the mini-series “La Sposa” (2022).
In March 2022, he joined Lux Vide as Head of International Development.
Barbara Pavone
CHIEF MARKETING AND SALES OFFICER
After a long managerial career spanning more than 25 years in leading entertainment and consumer goods companies, from her most recent stint at Warner Media, to her experience at Unilever, Bolton Group and British American Tobacco, Barbara Pavone joins Lux Vide and takes on the leadership of the marketing and sales team of the largest company in the Italian scripted market.
Barbara Pavone’s international experience brings her back to the world of production and media, fully reflecting Lux Vide’s culture of solid tradition, openness to innovation, Italian creativity and international vision. As Senior Vice President Group Marketing in Warner Bros Entertainment Italia, Barbara Pavone has collected in recent years excellent results in the creation and guidance of integrated and cross-divisional marketing and digital transformation.
Rosario Ranieri
HEAD OF POST-PRODUCTION
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.
In-house post-production demands focus on the product and on innovation.
Manuela Monterossi
HEAD OF LEGAL
AND BUSINESS AFFAIRS
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.
Our vertically-integrated business model requires complex legal services.
Valentina Monaca
CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
Valentina is a young manager who sees an opportunity in every new challenge and a solution in every problem.
Graduated at LUISS Guido Carli in 2007 in Economics and Corporate Finance, she starts her career in Big4 with PWC. During this period she worked in different areas, from auditing to business consulting for both industrial and financial companies.
He continues her career abroad, in EY Luxembourg in the financial services area. She comes back to Italy in Deloitte, where she deals with company valuation with the task of supporting the development of this activity in the Rome office.
From 2021 he joins Lux Vide as CFO, building on his previous experience in finance and industry.
“Administrative and financial management requires great creativity and short- and medium-term vision“