I was born in Rome (IT) in 1984. I’ve always been a shy kid and I guess that’s because I was amazed and at the same frightened by how colourful the world looked around me. I changed growing up, I became more social and friendly but that view did not turn to black and white. I think the centre of my interest has always been people and that was what pulled me out of my shell. 

I wrote my first novel, if we can call it so, when I was twelve. I used my Aunt’s old typewriter. I don’t remember much about it but definitely it started with “It was a cold rainy day…”. I think that stayed… the fascination for mysterious and dark stories more than light and uplifting things. A factor in it might be also my aunt, an ancient literature teacher who used to live with us. She used to read me Greek Mythology to sleep. Not really feel-good stories… 

I come from a family of scientists. I love my family a lot and it took me some time to realise that my career path will not go in that direction. However, my father was a strong influence for me to get into films. He taught me photography from a very young age, and when I was a kid we would sit after dinner and watch a movie, almost every evening. He introduced me to directors that now are amongst my favourites when I was still pretty young, Federico Fellini, Sergio Leone and Luc Besson above others.

At the University I started with Philosophy to go then more and more in the direction of Mass Communication while in parallel studying music in a private academy. I ended up getting a Doctorate in Cognitive Linguistics with a focus on Mass Media and Communications.

I started working in a Creative Agency while still studying.  I did research in UC Berkeley (Yes is kind of cool) and UCSD (San Diego) and after that I went to work for a company that worked on projects funded by the European Union. I was hired to start the creative department of the company and of course, I wrote a project that included technology and film.