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Matteo was born in 1975 in Ancona, in the centre of Italy, from a working class family. He graduated in Electronic Engineering in 2002, but never worked as an engineer. He fled to Rome instead, where at the age of 27 he was admitted at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, where he studied Scriptwriting. He got his diploma in 2006 and in 2009 his diploma film treatment “La Casa sulle Nuvole” was produced and released, directed by Claudio Giovannesi. Attracted by the American Black Culture, the controversy of slavery and his love for the American cinema, he then studied American Literature at the University La Sapienza.
At the age of 23 he lived in France for over one year, then in Spain for a few months. In 2011 he founded the Kino Rome, an association of more than 40 cinema and television professionals, which was an event and a hub for filmmakers and authors in Italy. In 2015 he lived in Berlin, where he helped programming a local cinema - Kino Berlin - keeping contacts with German distributors. Over the years he has written two more produced feature films. In 2016 he won the TFL Sky national award for fiction. He lives in Rome with his partner and his two children of 4 and 1.