Preparing for the Documentary Film

He completed his studies in Sociology at the Department of Social Sciences in Naples, specializing in Social and Territorial Policies. He trained as a facilitator in bottom-up urban regeneration processes and has a decade of experience as an activist in urban social movements, as well as an urban anthropologist and analyst of urban and territorial policies. As a filmmaker of documentaries with social and environmental themes, from 2008 to 2018 he collaborated with Neapolitan social cooperatives and nonprofit organizations in the field of migration and served as a trainer for teenagers in the creation of multimedia projects designed to facilitate the dissemination of new community and integration practices. For several years, he collaborated with the television station Insu^TV, producing documentaries, reports, and investigative videos in the Naples area and East Africa. In 2016, together with other colleagues, he founded Recollocal—a grassroots urban regeneration platform—through which he launched the “Transluoghi” project, an artistic and educational residency in the inland areas of Cilento. In 2017, he studied film and cinematography in Naples at ASCI Cinema di Napoli. Since 2016, he has worked as a freelance director of photography on visual projects as a director, editor, cameraman, and director of photography, collaborating with private individuals, organizations, associations, and film production companies. In 2019, he oversaw the visual promotion of several projects for Matera 2019, Capital of Culture, including “La nave degli Incanti” by Gommalacca Teatro. In 2020, he worked on the creation of the Bussento Ecomuseum in Morigerati (eastern Salento) as coordinator and art director. In 2020, he directed the short film “Bardo” for the “Sud e Magia” project of the Lucania Film Festival. In 2021, he was one of the coordinators of the Scampia Urban Ecomuseum for the “Quartieri dell’Innovazione” project, promoted by the City of Naples and funded by the European Union. In 2021, he directed and served as cinematographer for the short film “Fino al mare,” shot in San Giovanni a Teduccio. Since 2021, he has been teaching camera operation (MdP) at the Rea Academy in Naples as part of the cinematography course. He is currently working on two documentaries about small-scale fishing, “Devozione” and “La Baia,” produced by Pelagics—a fishermen’s cooperative.