Hundred days

Mario Cipollone was born in Pescara, Italy, on the 18th March 1981. He has always been passionate about nature, literature and cinema. In 2006 his first book, Insect of the mind, was published as winner of the prize Young authors held in Pescara. In 2008 Mario graduated with a degree in International Political Science. In 2011, during an internship in Poland, he took part in the shooting of the short film “Bus scum”, based on his novel “Monsters”. In 2012, after becoming increasingly concerned about the decline of the Marsican or Apennine brown bear, Mario became the co-founder of Salviamo l’Orso (Let’s save the bear) with the aim of conserving the critically endangered brown bear subspecies, endemic of the Central Apennines. His commitment to wildlife, the natural environment and to the conservation of the bear have gained Mario and his organizations several acknowledgments, publications and grants both at national and international levels. In 2013, Mario published his second book, At the farm’s shade, and wrote the script of the documentary Cerrano: nature reveals itself. In 2017, Mario wrote the subject of another documentary, Reserve effect, and in 2019 he was the scriptwriter and co-producer of the short film Hundred days, still unpublished.