Getting back to me... I grew up with bread and cams: I'm really lucky to be the heir of an advertising firm, which has been created by my family. It is called now Best option Media, even though for sentimental reasons I still call it with its old name, Videolook. Here, since I was a child I have had the opportunity to acquire a good experience and know-how. I was just eight when I learnt how to do my first video editing (using croma fx), I did my first shoots, taking a Sony cassette camera from the storage. And, while I was there, I took the opportunity to borrow also a 650 W, which I used to point lights onto the ceiling, in order to avoid too much image noise.

I have had the opportunity, over the years, to work with true professionals: as I was inquisitive and willing to learn new things, I used to ask my father to be included in his productions, so that I could make experience on the field about the way how a tecnical team works.

And it is since 2015 that I have been working on advertising sets, first as a runner, and then, after a couple of years, I was promoted to the role of cam operator.

In 2021 I decided to take a break from University, in order to devote myself full-time to work and also to a more specific and targeted formation, aiming at precise purposes and not random and illogical (at least, I lived the University courses with this sense of little 'concreteness'). So I started to attend the Color Grading with Da Vinci Resolve 17 Course, and a Diction Course at Centro D, which I am still attending at the moment, held by a master of Dubbing in Turin, Danilo Bruni; on my own, I have been reading and getting information about any topic I consider useful and important to analyze: for instance 'Lighting' by Blain Brown (a manual in English language about the DP profession and the use of light on film sets), or the amazing essay about screenwriting by R. McKey, 'Story', an exciting book that really made me dream.

The truth is that the way to become a good director of all respect is very long, it is a search that requires a lot of time and experience, as the prerequisite is the ability to tell a story through a personal perspective. It is essential to know how to move in all artistic fields, because only this way it is possible to handle all those details I was mentioning before, details that support all the framework. In other words: if you want to be the good leader of a team, first of all you must know each player well enough.

At the moment I am working on what could be my directorial code, my style in framing, my chrome palette, and things like that. I am brainstorming about all the movies I have seen in my past, including those which left a mark in my childhood and adolescence, not leaving out of course some new entries of the last few years... I am digging deeper to discover and decode what are the elements that have shaped my sensibility over the years. When I was really a little boy I was pestered by S. Spielberg's films, among these “Jumanji”, “E.T.”, “Jurassic Park”, “Indiana Jones”, “Empire of the sun”, “Hook”.

There are also other movies that I really consider landmarks in my childhood, and among these I can mention “The Haunted mansion” (Rob Minkoff), “Bram Stoker's Dracula” (Francis Ford Coppola), “Harry Potter” (particularly the first two chapters of the saga, directed by Chris Columbus), “Titanic” (James Cameron), “Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch stole Christmas” (Ron Howard). And, many years later, other movies have become a part of my life, such as “Eraserhead” (by David Lynch, a movie that gave me fever, and I'm not joking), “Dogville” (by Lars von Trier, that almost made me feel upset, it too), “Pulp Fiction” (and all the movies directed by the Art Master Tarantino), “Shining”, “Barry Lyndon”, “A clockwork Orange”, “Eyes Wide Shut”... well, Kubrick in toto, as he is my favourite film director.

It is quite clear that the genres that have affected me the most are adventure movies, detective movies, thrillers; and I think it is also clear my preference for those movies characterized by fantasy and medieval settings (haven't you noticed anything in my logo?), unusual circumstances and 'weird' characters.

If I reflect on the movies that I have just mentioned, I must infer that the reason for my choices in the representation of a scene, or for desaturated colors, is probably due to my 'artistic' formation, strictly connected to movies with dreamlike settings, past settings (1970s and 1980s), and also to my passion for bizarre and unusual characters such as vampires, knights, etc... .

Well, there have been enough words now! Below, I have enclosed my showreel of this year.

Enjoy the show!!