A modern fairytale, based on a true story.
An actress walks pensive on a film set. She cannot keep her mind clear, as she was sucked into the centre of the Earth. In a day like this, she recalls a memory about when she was young and a gipsy woman read her hand. She told her: “You will have everything in your life. Great blessings and great misfortunes…”
Born in 1989. Director, producer and author, he is an expert of social movie and current director of the Social World Film Festival, an International show of the social movie; in nine years of work for the Social World Film Festival, which has as honorary president the actress Claudia Cardinale, he founded a Monument and a Museum of Cinema, organised in 480 days of film-making activities in Italy and 37 Internazional events that have touched 28 towns of five continents from New York to Sidney, passing through Tokyo, Los Angeles, Rio de Janeiro, Tunisi and London; he received important awards and medals by the President of the European Parliament, by the Presidency of the Italian Republic, by the Italian House and Senate.
He wrote and directed a lot of short movies (Sad Letters – Lettere a mia Figlia with Leo Gullotta) documentaries (Primitively – Primitivamente with Giancarlo Giannini and the music of Enzo Avitabile), feature films (The Truth – Le Verità with Francesco Montanari, Nicoletta Romanoff and Mariagrazia Cucinotta) and spot with social issues (Run – Corri with Anna Falchi, transmitted on Italian televisions Rai and Mediaset) for which he received a lot of awards, including the recognition by the President, of the Italian Republic Giorgio Napolitano and by the Nobel Prize Rita Levi Montalcini, by the European Union and Public Service Announcement. He also received a special mention at the prestigious Italian award Nastro d’Argento of the National Union of the Italian film reporters, the first award at the Giffoni Film Festival, The Ettore Scola Award and the Prize of the Critical Jury at the Siena Film Festival.
Organizer of film events like the Campania Film Award – Premio Cinema Campania and the CineBus, first travelling film festival in the world, he is author and publisher for the cinema and the show.
He cares the anthology of film quotations Cinema is dream – Cinema è sogno that the historic president of Italian awards David di Donatello, Gian Luigi Rondi, called monumental.
He teaches direction at the University and for public and private educational institutions, works with the Master of Cinema and TV of the University Suor Orsola Benincasa and Film School of Naples, writes movie critics on various periodic and participates as columnist of social movie on national television broadcasts.
He is juror of the Various International Film Festival, including the Rome Film Festival – Festa del Film di Roma for the award Marc’Aurelio Esordienti.
Graduated in production and film organisation to the Lab of the National School of Cinema, Film Experimental Centre – Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia of Rome, in direction with low budget film among the National Film and TV School of London and in film language among the University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli.
Within the sphere of activities, he majored with full marks in Dentistry with an experimental thesis to Los Angeles by the title: The dentistry in the cinema and the show: new border of the aesthetics dentistry.
With the financial support of National Culture Fund.
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