Francesco Francio Mazza

I was born and raised in Milan, Italy. Woody Allen, Stanley Kubrick, and Alfred Hitchcock are the directors who have always inspired me, alongside the Italians Nanni Moretti, Dario Argento and Paolo Virzi'. Growing up, I used to read Fedor Dostoevskij, Michel Houllebecq, Alberto Moravia among others. In 2012, to pursue a career in filmmaking I moved to New York where, in 2014, I graduated in directing. There I met director Amos Poe, the legend of independent American cinema : with him, I wrote my thesis short film "Frankie" that was nominated for the prestigious Nastro d'Argento in 2016. I am also the author of two documentaries for Sky Arte, both presented by "Federico Buffa: Graffiti in New York" (2015) and "Ettore Majorana - L'uomo del Futuro" (2018). Since 2017, I have been writing and directing every videos of "Gli Estremi Rimedi", an Italian web-series I created with Daniele Balestrino. To date, on Facebook, we have more than 50 million views and in December 2019 we won as "Best Italian web series" at the Digital Media Fest in Rome. In May, 2021, I published my first novel, "il veleno nella coda" for Laurana Editore. It was ranked seventh in the weekly chart of Robinson, a distinguished Italian cultural magazine