Nyatepe APS
Since 2002The association where it all began: cultural integration, storytelling and independent production. The first place where I understood that telling stories and organising them are the same craft.
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Chapter 03
Create
I'm a director and producer: it's the craft I come from and still practise. But creating, for me, has never meant only filming — it has meant founding the companies, the festivals and the communities in which those stories could exist.
The project that changed the rules
Live
Italy's first light broadcast
Our first light broadcast production dates to 2011: the Turin Marathon for RAI. Until then, broadcasting a race that crosses an entire city live took helicopters — huge costs, burned fuel, noise over everyone's heads.
We put the encoders in backpacks. Operators on foot and on motorbikes along the route, signal on bonded cellular uplink, a control room receiving everything in real time. No helicopters. It was the first Italian project of its kind — and from there the same technology went to London 2012, Sochi and Rio 2013, the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, the Rio 2016 Olympics.
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Filmography
Eleven titles across documentaries, films and series, shot in Italy, Sri Lanka, Brazil and Uganda. From the first authored work in 2005 to productions still under way.
The Timeline of Ideas
Projects, ventures and personal initiatives that took shape over time.
LibLab srl
2007 — 2018 · founder and CEOA communications agency and cross-media production house serving corporate, institutional and national-media clients, always on themes of sustainability. Strategy, content, budget and coordination of international teams.
ModelGAST — Television Airtime Buying Group
Collective purchase of broadcast slots and independent production reserved exclusively for sustainable clients. Four pillars: airtime bought as a group, upskilling of under-qualified or retraining people, ethical advertising to cover production costs, and programmes on sustainability themes.
We also broadcast via satellite uplink, thanks to our modified Smart car: an old petrol vehicle we converted to electric, fully zero-emission. On the roof a self-pointing Ka-Sat dish, to go on air anywhere; in the boot the audio and video control desk. An entire mobile control room inside a city car that emits nothing.
With Icarusnet · Eutelsat — NewsSpotter Ka-Sat service · T-Lab Telecom Italia
With that car we produced four fully independent programmes:
- The Village
- Pubblica Elezione
- Sapore d'autore
- Parole sull'Acqua
FestivalThe Village Doc Festival
Founded in 2011An independent documentary festival on sustainability, with films from all over the world and screenings in non-places: prisons, apartment-block courtyards, schools, deconsecrated churches, underground carriages. With workshops in journalism and energy efficiency.
Matrimoni Solidali
An organised network of fair and sustainable producers: a significant share of the wedding budget was directed to those who produce ethically. The most celebratory kind of spending, turned towards those who needed it.
CompanyVirus Audio Visual
2013 — 2016 · founded and soldA production house founded in Brazil for documentaries and Italy–Brazil co-productions, from work on the waste chain to major events for Italian and foreign broadcasters. Sold in 2016.
Social sportRugbio
Since 2014 · led 2016 — 2025Born in 2014 as a funded project on sport and sustainability, it grew into a real sports enterprise: the gradual acquisition of three sports centres in Lombardy, a shift to multi-disciplinarity, and two restaurants. Ten years as legal representative of Polisportiva Rugbio ssd.
On the social side, the Mixed Ability projects — on the pitch together, athletes with and without disabilities, no separate categories — and partnerships with Save the Children and Mediafriends onlus.
Il Pensiero Libero
2024 — 2026A circuit of conferences and cultural events devoted to the free circulation of ideas. Today it comes back to life as an independent production network.
TEI — Token Expert Institute
Since 2026 · co-founderTraining and outreach on the tokenisation of real-world assets, the token economy and music royalties, with a dedicated conversational assistant. It is also the publisher of my two books on tokens.
Events and major productions
Election Days and Digital Economic Forum
For years I devised and produced events for the U.S. Embassy in Italy: the Election Days of 2012 and 2016 — the American election nights told live in Italy — and the Digital Economic Forum of 2013 and 2014, devoted to innovation and the digital economy.
Anteprime — literature festival
The literary festival of Pietrasanta, produced with Mondadori: authors, book launches and encounters in the city of marble.
Five years on the world's stage
London 2012 Olympics, the Sochi Winter Olympics and World Youth Day in Rio in 2013, the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
Globo Tricolore 2012
Awarded for SunnySoul, a project exchanging sustainable innovation between Italy and Brazil.
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