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Ivan Olita (born 24 November 1987) is an Italian-born film director, founder and creative director of New York based production company BRAVÒ.

Personal life
Olita was born to an Italian father and a Russian mother. He is currently based in Los Angeles, California.

Career
Olita started his early career working as a model for Valentino, Roberto Cavalli and Gianni Versace.

In 2007, he started working in Italian television hosting a daily show on All Music together with Valeria Bilello. In 2009, he co-hosted one night of Italy’s most viewed TV-event, Festival di Sanremo alongside Paolo Bonolis. Olita was one of the protagonists of the 2011 Lavazza Calendar shot by Mark Seliger.

From 2011 to 2013, he hosted Top Of The Pops on Raidue. However, he briefly returned to Italian TV in January 2015 to host Forte Forte Forte alongside Italian showgirl Raffaella Carra. During his TV career, he interviewed multiple music stars ranging from Katy Perry to Ben Harper and the Depeche Mode.

He was later inserted in the publication dream believe and create edited by Electa as one of the leading contemporary creators together with Ashton Kutcher Lena Dunham and others.

Editorial content
Olita was given an online column on Italian Rolling Stone in 2010. In the following years, he continued to collaborate in writing, photography and film content with many Italian and international magazines such as Vogue, Vanity Fair, Wired, GQ, Visionnaire, Purple, V Magazine and W. He collaborated and interviewed artists such as Lady Gaga and Miley Cyrus and fashion personalities such as Karl Lagerfeld. In 2014, he entered the board of contributors at content platform Nowness.

Olita is a contributor of SHOWstudio, the fashion website founded and directed by Nick Knight.

Filmmaking
Olita was mentored by the filmmaker, Werner Herzog.

Olita first started documenting his trips to remote places such as Mali, the Amazon jungle, Siberia and Colombia with photographic reportages that have been featured on Vogue.it starting from 2010. In 2011, he documented the underground clubbing and transvestite Milanese scene with Freakers.

His first attempt with the film came in 2014 with Fabulous James a short doc about the Life of billionaire James Goldstein and his 19th-century house, designed by John Lautner. The film premiered on Nowness and was presented at the Centre Pompidou in Paris in an occasion of Asvoff 7. It was featured on W Magazine with an LACMA museum screening during the party for the donation of the house to the museum.

Olita continued with a series of three films devoted to documenting LA personalities; in 2015, he shot a second film about Mark Mahoney, the west coast tattoo artist and a third and final film about Angelyne, the billboard queen, and showgirl of 1980s Los Angeles.

In 2015, Purple.tv held a retrospective of all his work related to the LA scene. In October that year, he went on to release a short documentary about the underground skaters’ movement of Cuba followed by a short doc about A.L.M.A., the largest and most expensive ground-based astronomical project in the world to date, the short doc was released on Amuse in March 2016.

In January 2016, V Magazine released Gaga on Gaga, a short film by Olita diving into Lady Gaga’s philosophy in occasion of the artist’s guest editing of V99. In December of the same year, Olita released Muxes, a documentary about Mexico’s third gender, a community of people living in the southern part of the Oaxaca region. The short doc has been featured on Short of The week and staff picked by Vimeo before going on to be featured on National Geographic.

Creative direction and commercial work
In October 2013, he collaborated with contemporary artist Paola Pivi on a piece later shown at the contemporary Dallas Contemporary 2015 Opening Night.

In January 2014, Olita funded his own creative agency and production company in New York, BRAVÒ. The same year, BRAVO - creative directed the launch of Kim.guru a web app that would allow people to forecast the weather according to Kim Kardashians’ outfits. In 2015 his agency BRAVO was behind the launch JustinKiss.me. He also directed Sincerely La, a 2014 short film for Hugo Boss.

In March 2015, Olita collaborated with contemporary artist Francesco Vezzoli on a series of film that was exclusively released on NOWNESS. He was also chosen as a director to shoot the Farfetch Unfollow campaign.

In January 2017, Olita was tapped alongside academy award winner Paolo Sorrentino to direct the Campari 2017 video campaign.