Born in 1953 (Torino). From 1999 to 2002 Director of Torino Film Festival and President of European Coordination of Film Festivals.
From 2004 Board member of Museo Nazionale del Cinema. From 2006 President of Film Commission Torino Piemonte. Film critic for the daily radio show Hollywood Party (RAI RadioTre), the daily magazine La Stampa and several magazines like Film TV, Cineforum, SegnoCinema.
Curator of tributes/retrospectives as like Riccardo Freda (1992), Philippe Garrel (1994), Turin, berceau du cinéma italien (2001), Italiana – il cinema attraversa l’Italia (2005), several books - as Mario Monicelli (La Nuova Italia, Firenze, 1986), Mario Mattoli (La Nuova Italia, Firenze, 1989), Officina Torinese (Lindau, Torino, 2000), Capitani coraggiosi (Electa, Milano, 2003), L’armata Brancaleone (Philip Morris – Lindau, Torino, 2006) – and TV specials as like Miracolo a Torino (2002), Italia ’70 – Il cinema a mano armata (2004), Uomini forti (2006).