About us – Hoffman Barney & Foscari Ltd

HOFFMAN, BARNEY & FOSCARI
SUPPORT ON A WORLD LEVEL
MEAT FREE MONDAY FOR THE
PROTECTION OF THE PLANET

Hoffman, Barney & Foscari Ltd have become official supporters of Meat Free Monday joining others like Puma, Abbey Road Studios and other important brands who will donate part of their income to the cause promoted by the ethical campaign launched by Stella, Paul and Mary McCartney. Glauco Della Sciucca, was already an official supporter of the campaign along with Woody Harrelson, Vivienne Westwood, Livia Firth and other personalities and is really happy to have strengthened the collaboration with MFM and, as quoted below on the official website, Della Sciucca in this sense affirms that “The growing need for an active contribution to the protection of the world and its ecosystem is the Question of Questions and no one can exclude himself or herself from the debate. In this sense, the values disclosed by Meat Free Monday are beyond time and fashion – themes that belong to everyone – and HBF is aimed precisely at all of them. To change the world. Indeed, to save it.”.

Link: https://www.meatfreemondays.com/supporter

GLAUCO DELLA SCIUCCA

MEET THE FOUNDER

Glauco Della Sciucca, an exponent of the forty-year-old generation, is a film director, illustrator, journalist, cartoonist, writer and designer. In 2017 he created and founded Hoffman, Barney & Foscari Limited, a multi-divisional creative London company and an official supporter of Meat Free Monday, the campaign launched by Paul, Stella and Mary McCartney. Before, Della Sciucca worked in the United States, making his début at a young age in the legendary The New Yorker, publishing in the Columbia Journalism Review (edited in New York by Columbia University), The Brooklyn Rail, The Jewish Week and many others. In Italy, apart from publishing aphorisms, stories and episodes, illustrations and alternative drawings in weekly and daily Italian newspapers (Il Messaggero, Il Tempo, L'Unità, Cuore, Italianieuropei, Il Manifesto, The New York Review of Books - Gruppo L'Espresso), Della Sciucca also published a book called Central Park West Stories. He has also designed a Swatch watch like the Black and White Special, launched in Shanghai, China; he has designed Iconic bags like "HarvArt" by MyStyleBags – presented in Lugano, Switzerland – as well as designing covers for the historic monthly Milan magazine Linus, of Peanuts by Charles M. Schultz. He has exhibited on an international level at a London exhibition called State of Minds in 2016 along with Michael Lindsay-Hogg. He has written and directed the feature film “Humanism! A new Comedy”, a comedy film making its début 2018 in the recently formed cinema division of Hoffman, Barney & Foscari, which was presented by the self same Michael Lindsay-Hogg, with music by the maestro Piero Umiliani and an international artistic cast.

GLAUCO DELLA SCIUCCA

LUCA BOMBASSEI

The celebrated Milan architect Luca Bombassei from the same Bombassei Architects office based in Milan and in the innovation district of Kilometro Rosso in Bergamo is also a member of the Administrative Council, has purchased 13% of shares of the British Company Hoffman, Barney and Foscari Ltd. HBF Ltd announces that it is about to start the pre-production of a new full-length film written and directed by Glauco della Sciucca and set in Italy between Venice and Milan. BOMBASSEI along with his family have 49% of the company listed on the Milan stock exchange of Milano Brembo spa, which is a world renown company of excellence within the high range car breaking systems and along with the innovative hub Kilometrorosso are developing an advanced technological and research reality in which more than 3,000 personnel are involved.

HOFFMAN, BARNEY & FOSCARI LTD

Hoffman, Barney & Foscari Limited is a multi-divisional Company and brand profile which was founded in London in 2017 and specialises in the creation of original prototypes (HBF Design and Luxury), creation and production (and co-production) of feature films for the Cinema and digital streaming (HBF Pictures), audiovisual for the Internet, digital TV and multi-medial relative convergence, co-production, production and promotion of events related to culture, to the Cinema and the Arts in general. Apart from producing and co-producing Cinema, Tv Formats, Audiovisual, Prototypes of Design and Events, HBF will be proposing to introduce the HBF Interiors, HBF House, HBF Accademia Italiana e Internazionale delle Arti e dei Mestieri. HBF, a multitasking Brand par excellence, promotes, also through an intense activity of the assignment of rights of the production and commercialisation of their prototypes and products, a vision and a conception of the world, of art and of digital capitalism absolutely connected to the necessity to co-exist, more than ever, Man and the Environment, the Arts and Business, Humanism and Industry, Culture, Audience, People and Ideas.

MICHAEL LINDSAY-HOGG

MICHAEL LINDSAY-HOGG / BIO

A pioneer in music video, Michael Lindsay-Hogg directed clips for The Rolling Stones for fifteen years, for The Who and The Beatles (Paperback Writer, Rain, Hey Jude, Revolution) and also their final film LET IT BE (1970). He directed the award-winning GRACELAND with Paul Simon, shot in Zimbabwe. On stage, Mr. Lindsay-Hogg directed the original productions of AGNES OF GOD on Broadway, and THE NORMAL HEART at the Public Theatre in New York. He earned a Tony Nomination for Best Director with WHOSE LIFE IS IT ANYWAY?. Mr. Lindsay-Hogg’s film and television credits include Tom Stoppard’s PROFESSIONAL FOUL, and Graham Greene’s DR. FISHER OF GENEVA as well as BRIDESHEAD REVISITED (co-director), all of which earned him recognition as Best Director by BAFTA. He also directed RUNNING MATES with Diane Keaton and Ed Harris for HBO. Mr. Lindsay-Hogg wrote and directed THE OBJECT OF BEAUTY, starring John Malkovich and Andie MacDowell which won Best Picture and Best Director awards at the Cairo International Film Festival. FRANKIE STARLIGHT with Anne Parillaud, Gabriel Byrne and Matt Dillon was released by Fine Line in 1995. It was voted by Jeffrey Lyons and Siskel & Ebert as one of their Top 10 pictures of the year. In 1996, The New York Film Festival chose Mr. Lindsay-Hogg’s never before seen THE ROLLING STONES ROCK’N’ROLL CIRCUS as a Special Event for the festival. His Polygram film GUY, starring Vincent D’Onofrio was released at the end of 1997, and was named one of the year’s Ten Best by LA Weekly. His film of WAITING FOR GODOT was part of the Beckett series which won the award for Best TV Drama on the prestigious British arts program The South Bank Show.

http://knopfdoubleday.com/2011/09/27/luck-and-circumstance-by-michael-lindsay-hogg/

THE CELEBRATED OPERA SINGER
ANNUNZIATA VESTRI HAS JOINED HBF

ANNUNZIATA VESTRI / BIO

Tuesday the 14th of August. Hoffman, Barney & Foscari officially announced the entrance of the celebrated Italian opera singer Annunziata Vestri. Mrs Vestri has performed in all of the major international theatres from the Teatro dell’Opera of Rome, the Teatro Regio of Torino and Parma, Maggio Musicale at Firenze, Teatro Comunale Bologna, San Carlo of Naples, to the Festival Puccini Torre del Lago, Festival dei Due Mondi di Spoleto. She made her cinematic début in the “La Cenerentola” directed by Carlo Verdone, under the management of Gianluigi Gelmetti and produced by Rada Film. Her next engagements will be at the centre of the Barbiere di Siviglia all’ Opéra of Monte Carlo, Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris, Opéra of Marseilles and al Grand Theatre de la Ville in Luxembourg. Mrs Vestri will also be performing as Maddalena in the Rigoletto at the Marseilles Opera house. She is a co-founder and creative advisor of Hoffman, Barney & Foscari. Very soon the HBF division “Opera House” will be announcing the start of our first audiovisual production linked to an international Opera event.

ALESSANDRO ADDARI / BIO

ENTREPRENEUR, FOUNDER AND SOLE ADMINISTRATOR OF TOP SOLUTIONS – EXPORT & TRAINING SINCE 2003 AND ITALTOP (ITALIAN ALLIANCE TOP PRODUCERS),. HE HELD THE POSITION OF EXPORT MANAGER FOR MAJOR COMPANIES, AND HE NOW COORDINATES A TEAM FOR THE AND INTERNATIONALISATION OF ITALIAN COMPANIES. PRESIDENT OF THE INTER-FIRM NETWORK NAMED “PARTNER FOR VALUE”, SIGNED IN 2010, THE FIRST IN ITALY IN THE CONSULTANCY AND TRAINING. TRAINER AND CONSULTANT FOR ITA (ITALIAN TRADE AGENCY) IN ITALY AND ABROAD, FOR MANAGERS AND ENTREPRENEURS; TRAINER FOR THE MASTER IN EXPORT MANAGEMENT FOR “24ORE BUSINESS SCHOOL. AMONG THE OFFICES HE HOLDS, HE IS FELLOW OF THE NATIONAL THINK-THANK “COMPETERE.EU” AND VICE PRESIDENT OF CONFINDUSTRIA (GENERAL CONFEDERATION OF ITALIAN INDUSTRY) OF CHIETI PESCARA. HE WAS THE DIRECTOR OF “QUALEIMPRESA”, THE ITALIAN NATIONAL JOURNAL OF YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS OF CONFINDUSTRIA, AND HE WAS APPOINTED RESPONSIBLE FOR INTERNATIONALIZATION AT CONFINDUSTRIA ABRUZZO. EDITOR OF THE BOOK “THE REVOLUTION OF COLLABORATIVE BUSINESS”; CO-AUTHOR OF THE BOOK TITLED “ADMINISTRATIVE SIMPLIFICATION, FROM WORDS TO ACTION”; AUTHOR OF THE BOOKS “EXPORTING BY NETWORKING”AND “EXPORT MANAGER PROFESSION.

WALTER TROVATO / BIO

Walter Trovato was born in Sicily and in his blood the ambition, determination and passion typical of the Sicilian people flow proudly. After completing his studies in economics in Rome in 2012, with a degree and a specialization in Digital Marketing he moved to London in 2014 where he founded his creative agency of Media and Digital Services "Iconize" which led him to collaborate with several brands (Mediaset, MTV, Haineken, Ginger etc) around the world. In 2017 Walter becomes co-founder of HBF, a company that allows him to test his skills in the activity of executive producer for the film Humanism directed by Glauco Della Sciucca. At the same time Walter also works in the production of several film advertising for international companies. The pages of Walter's life are still many to write but certainly the art will be the frame.

FOUNDER:

Glauco Della Sciucca - Chairman, CEO and Creative Director glauco@hoffmanbarneyfoscari.com

CO-FOUNDERS AND MEMBERS OF THE BOARD:

Luca Bombassei/Milan, Venice luca.bombassei@hoffmanbarneyfoscari.com
SIR Michael Lindsay-Hogg/Creative Advisor - Los Angeles. lindsay-hogg@hoffmanbarneyfoscari.com
Pier Enrica Conti Olivetti/Business Advisor - Milan olivetti@hoffmanbarneyfoscari.com
Alessandro Addari COO addari@hoffmanbarneyfoscari.com
Walter Trovato/Executive Producer - London. trovato@hoffmanbarneyfoscari.com
Giovanni Iannelli/Business Advisor iannelli@hoffmanbarneyfoscari.com
Giordano Marchegiani/Chief Designer marchegiani@hoffmanbarneyfoscari.com
Ivano Lapergola/Business Advisor lapergola@hoffmanbarneyfoscari.com
Annunziata Vestri/Creative Advisor - Nice vestri@hoffmanbarneyfoscari.com