Francesco Juilland

They will produce together 8 movies in 2004-2006 with their company Cameo FJ Ent.

Plus Francesco Juilland thanks to a lifetime business friendship with the producer and distributor Gianluca Curti, chairman of Gruppo Minerva, Italy, together with Freddy Braidy is the associate producer of the movie "The heart is deceitful above all things" directed by the Italian actress Asia Argento: the premiere was "sold out" in Cannes 2004. Francesco Juilland and Freddy Braidy through their company Cameo-FJ Ent.

Francesco Juilland is the president together with his partner Freddy Braidy of Cameo-FJ Entertainment, a production company located in Los Angeles, California. Francesco is the son of Emy and Joseph Juilland, one of the most respected families in the publishing industry in Europe, specializing in the publication of art and history books and magazines in Switzerland, Italy and France. His family was the first people in Switzerland to publish an educational, entertainment and cultural magazine aimed at the general reader and distributed in all the schools of the Country. Supporters and publishers of the Democratic Party, the Juillands published the Swiss Constitution, wrote the History of Switzerland, financed seven newspapers and created a literary and art prize in Italy. Founders of the Swiss Cultural Center in Milan near the La Scala theater, knowledgeable art collectors all the while continuing in the family tradition of wine making in their wineries in Switzerland. On August 2003 his family had early commitment and dedication as a Charter Member of the campaign in California of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver. Francesco Juilland is making a name for himself in the entertainment industry thanks to his passion for cinema and his profound understanding of the film industry. He resides in Bel Air, Los Angeles, California. Francesco Juilland is building his career working together with his partners and sisters: Maria Antonella Juilland, producer, and Paola Juilland COO and executive producer in charge of production that in business are hard as nails and focused. Antonella and Paola use work in the side of Francesco and are 100% percent behind him and the company. Francesco, Paola and Antonella Juilland together with Freddy Braidy care about what they are doing, they work very hard and they really love movies. Francesco Juilland graduated with honors in Law and Theology in Milan, Italy, and has received a BA "cum Laude" in Political Science from the University of Geneva, Switzerland. He has also received a Certificate in Entertainment at UCLA in Los Angeles. He began his career as a journalist and film critic in Switzerland (Lugano) and is still a member of the Swiss Journalist Board.

In 2003 Juilland created a production company with his partner Freddy Braidy: Cameo FJ Entertainment.

Together with Freddy Braidy, Francesco Juilland has produced in 2003 the movie "Retrograde".

Most recently in 2000, Francesco Juilland was elected in the Board of Directors of Ionic WW Studios, a fully digital Hollywood studio organized and financed by Mediacube as Major Investor together with Giorgio Prandoni and Javier Rodriguez, Spanish businessman and scion of an important and conservative Family of Spain full of history and tradition and thank to the greenlight of a guardian angel like the economist Mr. Diego Colombo, chairman of the Colombo Group with offices in Switzerland and around the world and longtime serious advisor of the Juilland family office. Francesco Juilland is in the Board of Directors with the man that he considers his American mentor Mike Medavoy (producer, former chairman of Tristar Pictures and a legendary "Hollywood industry hero" as Fox News channel calls him, many times Oscars winner, his movies including the masterpieces Apocalypse Now, Philadelphia, Dance with wolves, Who flew over the Cuckoo's nest, Annie Hall, Platoon, Rocky, the Sting, Silence of the lambs, Amadeus, The Terminator, Sleepless in Seattle) and Norman Pattiz (called from "USA Today" and "LA Times" The Ted Turner of the radio) and Arnold Messer (president of Phoenix Pictures, company producer of Larry Flint, The thin red line, U-Turn, The 6th Day, Basic, Holes, Stealth, All the King's men), together with David Hayden and Gigi Pritzker (film producer with Deborah del Prete of "the Wedding Planner" with Jennifer Lopez). Francesco Juilland is a distributor too in Switzerland with his father Joseph and their partner heir of a historical political family of Vietnam, Maurice Nguyen (now Swiss art cinemas owner), they distributed the last movies of director Manoel de Oliveira (A Talking Picture), of the actor Michael Douglas (The In-Laws), of Lucy Liu and Antonio Banderas (Ballistic) and of Chevy Chase and Brooke Shields (Rent a husband). Juilland has already realized thanks to his strategic partnerships in USA post production for the HBO disaster movies "Firetrap", "Epicenter", "Flying Virus" with the "twist talented" and "explosive" producers George Shamieh and Chevonne O'Shaughnessy; and VFX for Warner Brothers for the horror "Feardotcom" and for Paramount the action movie "ExtremOps" (Mark Damon); for Steven Paul (in the Guinness Book of World Records and partner of John Voight) and for his company "Baby Geniuses II"; and for H. Michael Heuser, President and CEO of Storm Entertainment. In addition to having been Executive Producer/Producer of over 25 films, Mr. Heuser is currently producing "Preacher", for which Francesco Juilland and his family have arranged to provide the epic VFX. Juilland worked as consultant for the successfully company Interactive (Italy) that has as chairman and president, Mr. Bruno Bogarelli, former founder of La Cinq and historical partner of the Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi.

In 1998 Francesco Juilland and Giorgio Prandoni co-founded Mediacube USA, Inc. a film production company and a visual effects service provider in USA, Europe and in Italy. Giorgio Prandoni is a leading figure and heir to the most prestigious industrialist dynasty in the design and manufacture of radio equipment and multi standard television sets in Italy. (His father was Dario Prandoni the luminary owner of Prandoni S. p. A. one of Europe's most highly regarded electronic companies; Dario Prandoni formed the basis of the Prandoni Empire and Giorgio Prandoni sells the company in France to Thomson with a big one deal).

During his tenure from 1998 to February 2002 as Mediacube's CEO Francesco Juilland has created important joint venture between Mediacube USA, Inc. and important European, American and Canadian companies. He also brokered the acquisition of a share of Minerva Pictures (Italy) they own a library of more than 1,500 titles of which 850 are for worldwide rights in perpetuity. The titles include classics works by Pasolini, Germi, Bellocchio, Godard, Fellini, Antonioni and others.

The movie won the David di Donatello (Italian Film Award) for Best Screenplay in 1997.

In 1997 he worked for Trinidad Films-Rome (Bud Spencer and Terence Hill movies).

Also in 1997 he started working as an executive producer for Greencube and Mediacube, two of the top five European commercial production companies.

In 1996 he produced "Homer: Portrait of the Artist in His Old Days" directed by Fabio Carpi.

The movie was selected as a Special Event at the Venice Film Festival in 1988. Francesco Juilland has worked on several films as an assistant director in Italy and in the U. S. He has been working as an executive in charge of acquisitions at Eurostar International of Christina Haller and Green Communication EIRE a satellite company of the media giant Mediaset. During his tenure he acquired such films as "A Better Tomorrow 1 and 2", "Hard Boiled", "Savage Nights" and "The Lawnmower Man".

In 1987 he co-founded with his father and his mother the Film Production Enterprise Iguana. The company produced the critically acclaimed film "Iguana", directed by Monte Hellman, one of the most talented directors of the Seventies in Hollywood.