Pif (television host)
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Pierfrancesco Diliberto 4 June 1972 Palermo, Italy |
Pierfrancesco Diliberto, nicknamed Pif, is an Italian television host, film director, actor and writer.
Biography
Pif was born in Palermo, Italy on 4 June 1972. He is the son of the Italian director Maurizio Diliberto and since he was young he had a passion for cinema.
In 1998 he worked as assistant director of Marco Tullio Giordana in I cento passi, a famous film against the mafia. In the same year he started working as a television author at Mediaset. In 2001 he started participating in Le Iene, an Italian TV show with journalistic reportages characterized by a sharp satirical style.[1]
In 2007 he started his own TV show, Il Testimone, on MTV. In the show, he uses an Autovox to create amateur-like reportages in Italy and abroad. In the same year he published his book Piffettopoli. Le fatiche di un quasi vip.[2]
In 2012 he published the short story Sarà stata una fuga di gas in the book Dove eravamo. Vent'anni dopo Capaci e Via D'Amelio, a miscellaneous volume celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the death of Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, two famous Sicilian judges who fought against the mafia and, after being assassinated, became symbols of the fight against mafia in Italy.[3]
In 2013 he started his film career by writing and directing The Mafia Kills Only in the Summer, where he is also plays the leading role .[3]
References
- ↑ Giuseppe Videtti (1 June 2011). "Pif, una vita da Iena Faccio interviste ma ho bisogno d' insulti". La Repubblica. Retrieved 27 April 2014.
- ↑ "Arriva 'Piffettopoli' memorie di una Iena". La Repubblica. 3 November 2007. Retrieved 27 April 2014.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Paolo Giordano (4 January 2014). "Più che Iena un raccomandato Ma di talento". Il Giornale. Retrieved 27 April 2014.