Born in Rome, on 29/7/1975. Graduated in Psychology at the University of Palermo, Italy, with a thesis on the cinema of David Cronenberg. In 2001 he's the only one Italian winner of the prestigious Fulbright scholarship "Sergio Corbucci" (with a letter of presentation by the Academy Award winner director Giuseppe Tornatore). Thanks to that, he attends and graduates in film directing at the Los Angeles Film School in Hollywood.