
NEWS NEWS NEWS . SUMMER 2008
mazzotti action created exciting car chases for the new HesseGreutert-Production called "Im Sog der Nacht" (working title) in Zurich/ Switzerland
With this movie we have introduced our own, new camera-car (see below) to the film industry.
Alister Mazzotti assisted Greg Powell for the shooting of the new Tom-Cruise movie "Valkyrie". We had over 70 stunt performers and 20 wire riggers (lead rigger: Jason Oettlé) working on this show and huge wire rigs (2. foto) up. The movie will be released in 2009.
For the Hessischer Rundfunk and their period feature film "King Drosselbart" (starring Felicitas Woll and Ken Duken) Alister Mazzotti choreographed swordfights and coordinated the stunts.
mazzotti action supported Christoph Heimer for his new shorts "'69" and "Krym": http://vimeo.com/1100212
Peter Haertle drifted a Beta 525 for the new DHL-spot "I'm coming", co-ordinated by mazzotti action.
mazzotti action has expanded its vehicle fleet: Our new Camcar (see image), built on a BMW 735i . It is expandable with an A-frame and countless configuration options, for car chases, mobile wire rigs and many other purposes.
We have also increased our own testing, workshop and training facilities in Berlin-Spandau. Our successful cooperation with the Stunt Network during the past years, and their expansion involving their new flying stage in Berlin-Pankow, allows us to train and create new stunts on a regular base. Stunt professionals visiting Berlin are welcome to join us any time!
mazzotti action web: dear friends and clients we are happy to announce a relauch of our homepage in the near future...
+++++ special news +++++ This year's Oscar for the best foreign film went to "The lives of others", directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck . The Stuntcoordinator was Alister Mazzotti. This is the second academy award winning film in which Alister Mazzotti has headed an action departement; he supervised the Special Effects for Roman Polanski's Holocaust drama " The Pianist" (2003). We are happy to see our company's philosophy is on the right track .
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Alister Mazzotti played all the male fighting characters in the soon to be relased game "Drakensang", based on the leading German RPG universe The Dark Eye ("Das Schwarze Auge") by Radon Labs.
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| mazzotti action was engaged to do the stunts in the new German tv-series " Schmetterlinge im Bauch" (05/2006-01/2007) |
In co-operation with the Theatre Vaiven mazzotti action flew the lead performer on overhead wires around the state opera building in Munich (summer 2006)
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| The Thriller "Headhunter"(Dir. S. Panneck), produced by Panix Film, was filmed with many exciting stunts and fights by mazzotti action. |
| mazzotti action was also in charge of the stunts for the first 16 episodes of "Zwei Engel für Amor" and the pilot film "Die 25. Stunde", both produced by Studio Hamburg. |
| Alister Mazzotti choreographed the fights scenes for the play "Cyrano" (Dir. C.Paulhofer) , in the Stadttheater Basel, Switzerland. |
| ..and made Yvonne Catterfeld slide through town for a Deichmann commercial. |
X-Films hired Alister to coordinate their new movie "Prince Edouard, Max Minsky and myself" (Dir.A.Justice / DOP N. T. Chau)...
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.. and produced the action for the thriller "dentophobia" by the high_pot company CHfilms...
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| 2 Episodes of "krimi.de", shot in Thuringia where completed with daring action by Alister and his team... |
..and in Italy Alister choreographed exciting free-, cage- and boxfights for the boxing-drama "Furoi dalle corde" (Dir. F. Bernasconi / DOP F.Zumbrunn)
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