Giancarlo Canavesio is an Italian entrepreneur, co-founder of the film company Mangusta Productions, producer of 2012: Time for Change and Neurons to Nirvana: Understanding Psychedelics Medicines.
In 2005, Giancarlo's friend, filmmaker Fabrizio Chiesa shot the short film Beautiful Child (loosely based on a Truman Capote’s novel) in his loft in TriBeCa.
Shortly after the creation of Mangusta Productions, Giancarlo produced the feature films The Living Wake by Sol Tryon with Jesse Eisenberg and Jim Gaffigan,[1] and Fix by Tao Ruspoli with Olivia Wilde and Shawn Andrews.
[2] In 2009, he produced Being in the World by Tao Ruspoli, which explores what it means to be human in a technological age,[3] and 2012: Time for Change by Joao Amorim with Daniel Pinchbeck, Sting, Elliot Page and David Lynch about personal and global sustainability.
[9] In 2013, Mangusta Production formed a new online digital platform, Mangu.tv, which covered Drugs & Medicines, Sex & Love, Freedom & Society and Life & Death.