Island VFX
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- Open roles
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- Founded
- 2018
- Employees
- 1-10
- Offices
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About Island VFX
Island VFX is a boutique visual effects and digital post-production studio based in Palermo, Sicily. Established in July 2018, it was the first dedicated post-production and digital effects studio in the city. The independently operated company serves feature films, television and streaming series, and advertising productions, combining creative VFX work with production planning and delivery management.
Its work focuses on photorealistic effects and the integration of computer-generated elements into filmed material. Capabilities include digital environments, set extensions, green screen extraction, rotoscoping, cleanup and multilayer compositing. Its 3D services encompass asset creation, CG characters, animation, rigging, lighting and rendering, supporting both individual digital elements and more extensive virtual landscapes and sets.
From planning to delivery
The studio's services extend beyond post-production execution. On-set VFX supervision supports technical shooting decisions, while budgeting and production services cover VFX breakdowns, scheduling and cost management. Previsualization and postvisualization help develop sequences, and post-production management coordinates VFX deliveries for Italian and international productions. This combination brings planning, shooting support and digital finishing within the studio's service offering.
Island VFX works both directly with domestic Italian productions and in partnership with international visual effects studios and production companies. Its business therefore encompasses direct production relationships as well as contributions within wider VFX vendor networks. The studio's public portfolio presents work across cinema and episodic television, reflecting this mix of domestic and international activity.
The company was established by professionals with complementary backgrounds in visual effects supervision, production and computer graphics. That combination informs an offering spanning technical image creation and the practical organization of VFX work. Its Palermo base brings together company administration and creative post-production within a single physical production facility.
More about Island VFX
Founders and leadership
- Gabriele Ciaccio: CEO, co-founder, VFX supervisor and on-set supervisor. He trained at Vancouver Film School and MPC Academy in Montreal, and previously worked at MPC in Montreal, Framestore in London and Mr. X in Toronto.
- Giorgio Ciaccio: CEO, co-founder and producer, also identified as managing director/administrator. An economics graduate with more than two decades of entrepreneurial experience, he leads executive production, legal planning and regional business development.
- Francesco Ciulla: Co-founder and CG generalist, with expertise in 3D modeling, lighting, rendering and real-time character animation.
Infrastructure investment
The studio received co-financing through the European Regional Development Fund under Sicily's 2014–2020 regional programme, Action 3.5.1_02. The report records a grant of €108,703.88, settled on June 29, 2023, supporting professional computing equipment, CPU/GPU render nodes, enterprise storage and software licences, including Foundry Nuke, SideFX Houdini and virtual machine management systems.
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Where Island VFX is based
- Via Ferdinando Ferri, 10, 90143 Palermo (PA), ItalyPalermo, Sicily, Italy
Palermo office
HeadquartersOverall company headquarters, administration and creative post-production/VFX studio.
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