BIO:

To be fair and honest, I don’t love writing about myself at all. Also, to be fair and honest, I don’t think most of the people could care less about my life. So in the end you don’t like and I don’t like it, but here we are anyway. My name is Nicola Pizzi and this is my Bio:

I was born in Milan, Italy the 4th of January 1981, My father is an engineer and my mother is a psychotherapist. Since I was little, I was passionate about writing and arts. I enrolled in my first writing competition when I was ten with a short story titled “The Garden of Death”. It won 2nd place. The first place went to the grandaughter of the dean; they said my topic was a little too dark for a 10 year old audience. To this day, I consider upsetting a bunch of moms and teachers one of my greatest achievements. I grew up loving science and math, but I ended up pursuing classical studies at the Parini High School, my father insisted. There, I fell in love with history, philosophy and literature and I was exposed to all the great writers, modern and ancient, that I still hold dear today. Right after high school, I enrolled in Algorithm Design for software applications at the Bicocca University of Science in Milan. Back then the new economy was roaring; it was a safe career path and I liked math and science anyway. Go figure. After three years studying matrix operations and mathematical functions, I realized that I might have been hasty and made a wrong turn.

If I was going to pursue my passion I needed to make a “180”. I dropped out and started writing for Argo 42, a literary magazine of the Milan State University. I joined Controprogetto: a craftsman social collective where I learned about carpentering and staging and enrolled at the Civic Film School of Milan one year later. After two years of studies in screenwriting, I graduated and moved to the Chinatown area of Milan. In those years, I was working as a PA on commercials and a television talk show, while simultaneously writing my anthology of short stories. Back then I was sharing my apartment with the painter Gianrico Agresta, whose mentorship and friendship furthered my comprehension of the arts regarding the evolution of music and figurative arts in history. I published my first book in Italian: “La strage dei giocattoli” (The toys massacre) collecting all my best short stories of those years. Things seemed to be lining up in the right direction for me, but I was up for another dramatic turn.

In 2008, my girlfriend at the time, and ex-classmate from film school, decided to move to Hollywood to tackle the biggest entertainment industry on the planet. It seemed like a rather hazardous plan, but love is love and we shopped for schools. I left everything behind: family, friends and writing dreams, and we moved to Los Angeles where I signed up for the Los Angeles Film School. There I met a remarkable class of students, with many passionate souls and a many foreign fellas. I felt at home and even though switching language meant leaving writing behind for a while, I found that my passion for arts , storytelling and science combined perfectly into the Cinematography craft. In 2010, freshly graduated, I worked as a volunteer PA on my first American set.

Two months later I gaffed my first indie horror movie and have been freelancing on set since then. Lots of marvelous things have happened in the last three years: I have worked as Director of Photography for Tiger House Films, I gathered my first experiences as art director and editor and I got married. Now that my English has improved from the awkward days of miming and lexical deficiency I am resuming my writing activity too, hoping to go back crafting stories. It has been a good ride so far, and it looks like it’ll get better, at least, until the next dramatic turn…

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We at Tiger House Films are fortunate to have found a friend in Nicola within this Los Angeles entertainment industry. We are looking forward to enjoying many more projects with him.

Here is a link to his work on our film “Agent 6”: https://tigerhousefilms.com/agent-6-film-trailer/

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