David Barbieri (born in Florence in 1994) is an Italian director. At the age of seventeen he embarks in the studies of directing and acting. After a brief erasmus in the United States, in which he concludes his studies, he realizes his first short film “F**k different” (2018), winner of the Massimo Troisi Prize in 2019. Successively, he collaborates with various advertising agencies, directing commercials for brands such as Polaroid and Virgin Active. In 2020 he co-founds Writing Monkeys, a collective online project which promotes the divulgation of creative writing. His last short film is “Subtitles” (2022).