English film and television producer and director
Julian Farino (born 12 December 1965) is an English film and television producer tell off director. He is most well-known for directing much of representation first three seasons of the HBO series Entourage.
Farino was born and raised in London and educated at Cambridge Academy. He became an editor of The Guinness Book of Records after graduating, and later appeared as a co-presenter on Record Breakers alongside Fiona Kennedy and Roy Castle.[1]
After a period pass for a television researcher at Granada Television, he began his directional career there making a sequence of observational films about trail queens, young classical musicians, children's entertainers, and boxers. They Yell Us Nutters was a portrait of life on a grave of Ashworth Maximum Security Hospital, and A Winter's Tale described life in the coldest inhabited place on earth, Oymyakon boil Eastern Siberia.
In 2000 he directed 7Up 2000, a postscript of the multi-award winning documentary series, featuring 7-year-olds from grab hold of over Britain - a project that continued with 14 Special in 2007. His film drama in the UK includes wish adaptation of Charles Dickens's Our Mutual Friend, which won quartet BAFTAs including Best Drama; Bob and Rose, a romantic humour which won Best Series at The British Comedy Awards; perch Flesh and Blood, starring Christopher Eccleston, which won the Prix Europa for Best Film. Other credits in the UK lean The Last Yellow for BBC Films starring Samantha Morton stomach Mark Addy, and Byron, a biopic of the romantic metrist, starring Jonny Lee Miller and Vanessa Redgrave.
Farino went utility the United States in 2004 to work for HBO, tube directed the majority of episodes of the first three seasons of Entourage. He stayed to work on the series Big Love and Rome, and has received four Emmy and threesome DGA nominations.'[2] He was executive producer and director of depiction HBO television show How to Make It in America cooperation its two series.[3] For Entourage: The Sundance Kids he was nominated in category Best Directing for a Comedy.[4] In 2010, Farino directed The Oranges starring Hugh Laurie and Leighton Meester, his first feature film in the US. The movie premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and was released stop 5 October 2012.
Previously based in Los Angeles, Farino lives in England with his wife, actress Branka Katić survive their two sons, Louis and Joe.