I am an Italian-Ecuadorian film director based in Berkeley, CA.

I have been for fifteen years vegetarian then I quit. I am a better person now. I still love vegetables and cheese probably because I am a countryside boy raised in the pre-Alps.

I moved from my small village when I was nineteen to be an au-pair in England. They told me that I was the first male nanny. Since then I changed 16 houses and lived in: Folkstone, Ashford, Bologna, Amsterdam and Palermo.

I always had to work during my studies and I got graduated from the University of Bologna with a Master's degree in Cinema and Multimedia production in 2015. If filmmaking hadn't stolen my heart, I'd be out there championing social causes as a badass social worker.

I recorded my first short film in Romania where a greek-orthodox priest was rescuing orphans and teaching them agricultural jobs. With this short, I got selected for a few festivals and I entered the Italian national school of cinema the Experimental Centre of Cinematography. The intensive program lasted three years and it was bloodshed and joyfulness.

Before finishing the National School, my short Chronicles from Dusk was selected for the Critics’ week at the Biennale of Venice. The project was born with Field of Visions and Laura Poitras as part of the video installation for Manifesta.

After my first short I traveled many times to the Balkans. I have a fatal attraction and connection to that geographic area, their tradition, spaces and colors.

I worked for almost a year with Pasquale Scimeca and we co-direct the documentary “Francis’ supper“ presented at the Turin Film Festival and bought by Rai Cinema.

In late 2020, I moved to the U.S. following the dream of filmmaking.