Born in 1973, Marco Belardi has been a movie enthusiastic since forever. He graduated at the Roberto Rossellini Cinema and television Institute based in Rome. Just after the school he started attending the Cinecittà movie Studios and dealing with several entertainment agencies.
After founding the Immaginando post-production group in 1996, in 1999 he was one of the two partners who created the SunFlower Production, a new company that managed with television and entertainment industry.
2003 was the year of the new born Hangar, while in 2004 Marco Belardi founded Lotus Production, the company who signed his success in the movie and entertainment industry.
Several are the movies he produced:
After “Amore 14” by Federico Moccia, the success arrived with “Immaturi” by Paolo Genovese (2010), ‘Immaturi il viaggio’ (2012), ‘Una famiglia perfetta’ (2013), ‘Tutta colpa di Freud’ (2014), ‘The Place’ (2017), ‘Supereroi’ (2021), ‘ Il primo giorno della mia vita’ (2022). All products signed by Genovese.
The very most successful movie has been “Perfetti Sconosciuti” (2016), who got over 16mln€ at the box office and it’s the Italian movie most remade worldwide.
In 2015 the Leone Film Group bought the Lotus Production company, in this new suit Belardi started his partnership with some directors as Paolo Virzì and Gabriele Muccino. Here some films produced under their direction: ‘‘La pazza gioia’ (2016) and ‘Notti magiche’ (2018), directed by Paolo Virzi and ‘A casa tutti bene’ (2018), ‘Gli anni più belli (2020), ‘A casa tutti bene la serie’ (2021), directed by Gabriele Muccino.
About other movies and TV Series produced by Lotus Production:
‘Ti ricordi di me’ by Rolando Ravello (2014), ‘Ti sposo ma non troppo’ by Gabriele Pignotta (2014), ‘Italiano Medio’ by Maccio Capatonda’ (2015), ‘Le leggi del desiderio’ by Silvio Muccino (2015), ‘Il professor Cenerentolo’ (2015) by Leonardo Pieraccioni, ‘Miami beach’ by Carlo Vanzina (2016), ‘Quel bravo ragazzo’ by Enrico Lando (2016), ‘Omicidio all’italiana’ by Maccio Capatonda (2017), ‘Hotel Gagarin’ by Simone Spada (2018), ‘Vivere’ by Francesca Archibugi (2019), ‘La volta buona’ di Vincenzo Marra (2019), ‘Time is up’ by Elisa Amoruso (2021),
‘Mio fratello, mia sorella’ by Roberto Capucci (2021), ‘Per tutta la vita’ by Paolo Costella (2021), ‘Vicini di casa’ by Paolo Costella (2022), ‘Mia’ by Ivano De Matteo (2022), ‘The land of dreams’ (2022) by Nicola Abbatangelo, ‘Felicità’ by Micaela Ramazzotti (2022).’The generi’ di Maccio Capatonda (2018), ‘Alfredino’ by Marco Pontecorvo (serie tv – 2021), ‘Immaturi la serie’ (2018), ‘Tutta colpa di Freud la serie (2021), ‘Carlo!’ docu-film (2012) ‘Ben: respira’ docu-film (2021), ‘A casa tutti bene – la serie’ by Gabriele Muccino (2021), ‘Emma’ docu-film (2022), ‘Leoni di Sicilia’ by Paolo Genovese (2022), ‘A casa tutti bene – la serie’ (2022)

Several are also the prices won by films produced by Marco Belardi:

David di Donatello
“Perfetti Sconosciuti” – best film and film script
“La pazza gioia” – best film, best director, best actress, best scene, best hairstyle

Nastri d’argento

“Perfetti Sconosciuti” – best comedy, best original song
“A casa tutti bene – la serie” – best TV serie
“La pazza gioia” – best director, best film script, best actress, best costumes, best soundtrack

Globo d’oro
“Perfetti Sconosciuti” – best comedy
“La pazza gioia” – best film script

Ciak d’oro
“Perfetti Sconosciuti” – best movie, best film script
“La pazza gioia” – best film, best actress

In December 2021, Marco Belardi left Lotus Production and Leone Film Group for establishing a new company, GreenBoo Production, with which he has already made several projects.
First and foremost, the nonfiction film ‘Ligabue. 30 anni in un giorno, Campovolo 2022’ directed by Marco Salom, and the theatrical show ‘Giorgio Panariello: la favola mia’, available on Netflix. For the cinema, in 2023 GreenBoo produced the movies ‘La guerra dei nonni’ and ‘Come incasinare i tuoi genitori’, both directed by Gianluca Ansanelli, and the movie ‘Afrodite’ directed by Stefano Lorenzi. GreenBoo also made ‘Califano’, interpreted by Leo Gassmann and directed by Alessandro Angelini, it is the biopic of the famous Italian singer Franco Califano, and it will be aired on 11th February 2024 in primetime on Rai1. GreenBoo also produced two upcoming documentaries: ‘Libero’, in memory of the Italian actor Libero De Rienzo who died in 2021, and ‘Together’, a journey inside the women’s prison of Pozzuoli (Naples).
Among the projects currently under development there are the TV series based on ‘Cinema Paradiso’, written by the Academy Awards winning director Giuseppe Tornatore, the TV series for Sky ‘La Mala’, written by Stefano Sardo, Chiara Battistini and Paolo Bernardelli, and the film debut of the Sicilian comic duo ‘I Sansoni’, whose shooting will begin on 18th March.