Carlo Massarella

Chief Executive Officer

Emmy and BAFTA award-winning Executive Producer and Director Carlo Massarella joined Windfall Films in 1996 and has devised and worked on a wide range of innovative and successful science, technology and history series.

He devised many of the company’s returnable franchises including Monster Moves, Big Bigger Biggest, Railroad Alaska, Unearthed, Strip The Cosmos, World’s Most Secret Hotels, Building Giants, My Floating Home and the Why… current affairs strand. He has been Executive Producer on many of the company’s events and specials including ABBA : Fifty Years of Pop, Eclipse Across America and the iconic 360-degree drone-shot ‘Postcards’ for the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 in Liverpool.

He has also pioneered a range of series and films exploring large scale, long-term unique-access engineering projects. These include the hit BBC2 returning series The Fifteen Billion Pound Railway charting the ten year construction of London’s new metro line – Crossrail; Last Flight Of The Space Shuttle for Discovery charting the definitive story of the space shuttle through the eyes of the people who made it happen as the clock counted down to the final ever launch; Inside Chernobyl’s Mega Tomb for PBS NOVA/BBC exploring the construction of a huge metal dome sealing Chernobyl’s crumbling nuclear reactor and Rebuilding Notre Dame for PBS NOVA /BBC charting engineers battle to reconstruct and restore the fire-damaged Cathedral.   

A Physics graduate of Imperial College London, he returns regularly to lecture to Post-graduate students about the challenges of communicating science on television.