Biography

BIOGRAPHY: Born in 1980 in Castellammare di Stabia (NA), but grown up in Bolzano (South Tyrol). After he graduated in 1999 at the secondary school focusing on sciences, he worked in the period between 2002 and 2003 as volunteer in Nicaragua with homeless children. In 2005 he collaborated in a "third theatre project" with HIV positive people in Malawi, Africa, where shot as cameraman the documentary film "Pang'ono pang'ono". In 2007 he graduated and specialized at the ZeLIG - School for documentary, television and new media - in project development and directing. "The life and other building yards" is his debut film as director. In February 2008 he took part in the "6th Berlinale Talent Campus" and in August 2008 at "Interaction 08" International Film Student Campus in Serbia, where directed the experimental short documentary "Helium". In 2009 he is going to be the Art Director of the young production company "Peperonitto Film", located in Abruzzo in center of Italy. FILMOGRAPHY: Los Quinchos, 2005, 15' (Documentary) Schule machen, 2005, 18' (Documentary) Cecità, 2006, 84' (Featured film) Pang'ono Pang'ono, 2006, 30' (Documentary) La vita e altri cantieri, 2007, 37' (Documentary) Testa di calico, 2008, 5' (Short for Sky TV) Helium, 2008, 7' (Short experimental documentary)