Valerio Pizzonia

Valerio Pizzonia was born and raised in Rome. From his mother and his granny he inherited his great love for the Eternal City. During his high school years, Valerio traveled a lot: most of Europe, Scandinavia, North and South America and India. At the age of 19 he moved in the U.S.A. to follow his other great love: Movies. He attended the Emerson College in Boston, where he graduated after only three years, getting a B.A. in Visual and Media Arts. After College he moved to Los Angeles; his first experience was an internship at Paramount Classics. During the following years he has been working as a waiter, while working as well in different productions, from big TV shows to indie movies, to high budget shorts. In 2006 he moved back to Rome to work on the biggest set of the world, the one of HBO's Rome. In November of the same year he worked on the New Line feature "Inkheart". Then, Valerio wrapped his first short "Until death do us part", that is planning to make into a feature film in the near future. Now Valerio is currently in Toronto, Canada, working on a documentary called "Breasticide: a breast cancer story" directed by Melissa Munroe. Valerio joined the documentary to help with the development of production as he is helping the director on different departments, from shooting, to editing, to producing, but most of all, to learn as much as he could on an issue that people are usually too scared to talk and learn about.