PRODUCER & DIRECTOR
OF TRAVEL STORIES

Ludovico de Maistre
Bio

I’m an Italian director and producer focused on stories in which travel is not simply a backdrop, but the driving force of the narrative.

For more than fifteen years, I have explored the world through documentaries, commercial and television projects centred on travel, adventure, exploration, sport, cultural discovery and extraordinary human stories.

I hold a law degree from the University of Turin, where I wrote my thesis on the rights and cultural heritage of indigenous peoples.

In 2011, I founded Travel Media House, a production company dedicated to travel documentaries and audiovisual projects connected to tourism, outdoor culture and exploration. Since then, I have directed and produced projects across Africa, the Americas, Asia and Europe, including more than 400 television documentaries for RAI.

Among my projects are The World in Slow Motion, Everest with Three Fingers and Travel Filmmakers: stories built around journeys, extraordinary people and unconventional ways of experiencing the world, which have reached international audiences through television and streaming platforms thanks to the support of my international distributors.

During the same period, I created Travel Film School, an educational platform dedicated to travel filmmaking and documentary storytelling. Over the years, it has grown into a community of more than 25,000 filmmakers and aspiring visual storytellers.

Together with my son Guy, I created Le Avventure di Guy, a documentary series for children and families broadcast on TV2000 and YouTube. Through real journeys, encounters and discoveries, the series reaches thousands of viewers every day and reflects my belief that travel can be one of the most powerful ways to inspire curiosity about the world from an early age.

In 2024, Travel Media House became part of Fargo Film, one of Italy’s longest-established independent audiovisual production companies, founded in 1977 and today led by a new generation of executive and creative producers. I became CEO of Fargo Film in 2026.

I am currently developing my first fiction series, I Viaggi di Diego, an eight-episode, 25-minute-per-episode project for Rai Fiction, inspired by the real life of my friend Diego Gastaldi and by experiences drawn from my own journeys. The series represents a natural evolution of my work and passion: bringing the language, spirit and sense of discovery of travel storytelling into scripted television.

At the same time, I am writing the screenplay for my first feature film for cinema, continuing to explore how journeys can become the foundation for fictional stories as well as documentaries.

Alongside my original productions, I also work with brands to develop stories that reflect their identity and values. I create branded documentaries and audiovisual projects designed to live beyond traditional advertising, distributed across television, digital platforms and international markets and capable of reaching millions of people around the world.

Whether working on a documentary, a television series, a branded story or a feature film, my approach remains the same: I tell stories that use the journey to reveal something deeper about people and the world around us.