In my whole I've always been interested in the moving image. I've started when I was teen ager just playing with cameras of my parents and I continued till I was student in the last year of Course in Science of Communication and I decided to make the final thesis in Videoart (in 1999). After that in Milan I applied for a course in Documentary production (in 2004) and several small workshops and mini courses. In London in continued to apply in other short courses and workshops. I think there is always something new to learn. Here there is the list or the courses starting from the last one:
Seminar "How To Make A Documentary That The BBC Will Buy", with Col Spector
Cinema Jam in partnership with NFTS (National Film and Television School), London, 2016
More info: http://cinemajam.com/documentary-short-course-col-spector/
Documentary Sound with Larry Sider
Open City Docs and University College London, London, 2016
More info: http://opencitylondon.com/workshops/documentary-sound-larry-sider and https://www.schoolofsound.co.uk/sos/documentary-sound-with-larry-sider/
Seminar in Experimental Cinema
BFI (British Film Institute) in association with LUX, London, 2015
The seminar was a great opportunity to reflect and sharing ideas about the experimental works that have been presented during the London Film Festival.
“Seminar participants attend the Experimenta festival screenings, and draw upon and interrogate their responses to these – extending from themes, issues, curatorial premises and the festival’s structure itself to individual works as they relate to a developing, ongoing conversation around contemporary moving image practices”. More info
Workshop in Documentary Direction
Association Griò in Bologna, 2008
Master class with Enrica Colusso, teacher of cinema and documentary production and director of documentaries.
Seminar “How to write a creative Documentary”
Holden School of Turin and Documentary in Europe, Turin, 2007
The Seminar focused on techniques of writing (“How to write a documentary”): Research; Script Elements and formats; Treatment (short story narrative written in simple, non-technical language, ie. no camera angles, transitions, etc.), Proposal (which frequently includes a treatment, is a thorough description of all aspects of a project. It is created in the pre-production stage of a documentary project to persuade funders, distributors and others to support the project).
Course in Documentary Production
Civica Scuola di Cinema in Milan, 2004
The course focused on: History of cinema and documentary (teacher Silvano Cavatorta), Photography and techniques (Franco Baresi).
During the course there also special workshop with awarded filmmakers like: Alessandro Rossetto (author of Il fuoco di Napoli (1997), Bibione Bye Bye One (1999), Chiusura (2002), Feltrinelli (2006), Raul (2007)), Sam Green, author of The Weather Underground (2002), Bruno Bigoni, Giorgio Garini
More info: http://www.fondazionemilano.eu/cinema/documentario-corsi-serali
Bachelor’s Degree in Science of Communication
University of Salerno, 1993-1999
The exams that were relevant in in the area of cinema have been: Semiology of Cinema and Audiovisuals and Aesthetics. At the end of course thesis was on Videoart (“Videoart: an analysis on the relation with the social contemporary schizophrenias”).
