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\u00abOn the strength of my long experience as an unemployed person … \u00bb.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

That was how my short CV began when, at the end of 1988, I presented myself for an interview at Saatchi&Saatchi, the famous advertising agency.<\/p>\n\n

Marketing, advertising, timetable were all terms entirely foreign to me. In my backpack, I was carrying a few stories and, in my head, a vague idea that perhaps I might have been able to become a copywriter.<\/p>\n\n

They told me I could stay for a week. As it turned out, I wound up staying a bit longer: fifteen years.<\/p>\n\n

After one month, I was hired, after three years I became a supervisor, after five, a creative director or, rather, the creative director with the greatest number of awards to his name in all of Italy. Coming as I had from a family of lawyers, and perhaps so as to not to feel the burden of guilt for having betrayed a tradition, I started to dedicate a lot of my free time to social campaigns. By day, I worked for the important clients and, by night, for those who were unable to pay.<\/p>\n\n

In brief, I became the creative director of lost causes.<\/p>\n\n

From the \u201cPanther\u201d student movement to Doctors Without Borders, from the WWF to the Community of Saint Egidio, from Greenpeace to the Tribunal for Patients’ Rights, from etcetera to etcetera.<\/p>\n\n

Then, one fine day, I threw my career to the wind, flushed my prizes down the toilet, and took the decision to dedicate myself to film directing, once again as a self-taught practitioner. That was how I began to write and direct the Catholic Church’s campaign to solicit the eight-per-mille deductible contribution from taxpayers. I traveled to the most forsaken corners of the Earth and told many invisible stories taking place in our own Country.<\/p>\n\n

In the course of these travels, in those rare moments when I was neither working nor too tired to do anything but sleep, I kept a diary, wrote short stories, composed poems. And I also began to think about new projects that became photography exhibitions, books, web sites, screenplays, documentaries, art films.<\/p>\n\n

Now, after building a small village for orphans in Madagascar with the help of my children, I\u2019ve started a new, beautiful, and exciting adventure with the Italian Buddhist Union.<\/p>\n\n

And I like to think that it was just meant to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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