Pif

Pif

Born: June 4, 1972
in Palermo, Sicily, Italy
Pierfrancesco Diliberto, nicknamed Pif (born 1972), is an Italian television host, film director, actor and writer.

Pif was born in Palermo, Italy on 4 June 1972. He is the son of the Italian director Maurizio Diliberto and has had a passion for cinema since his youth.

In 1998 he worked as assistant director to Marco Tullio Giordana for I cento passi (The Hundred Steps), 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 (The Hyenas), an Italian TV show with journalistic reporting characterized by a sharp satirical style.

In 2007 he started his own TV show, Il Testimone (The Witness), on MTV. In the show, he uses an Autovox to create amateur-like reports in Italy and abroad. In the same year he published his book Piffettopoli. Le fatiche di un quasi vip.

In 2012 he published the short story Sarà stata una fuga di gas (It Must Have Been a Gas Leak) in the book Dove eravamo. Vent'anni dopo Capaci e Via D'Amelio (Where We Were. Twenty Years After Capaci and Via D'Amelio), a miscellaneous volume commemorating 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 the mafia in Italy.

In 2013 he started his film career by writing and directing The Mafia Kills Only in the Summer, in which he also plays the leading role, and from which he created the homonym TV series, directed by Luca Ribuoli. In 2016 at the Rome Film Festival his second film as director: In guerra per amore.

Source: Article "Pif (television host)" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Movies for Pif...

Caro Battiato
Title: Caro Battiato
Character: Narrator
Released: January 7, 2022
Type: Movie
A special night dedicated to Franco Battiato, who passed away on 18th May 2021 at 76 years old. The title catches on the affectionate tone Pif will use as he narrates a journey through the singer-songwriter's life - from Mount Etna to Milan - through the Verona Arena where a concert was held in loving memory.
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On Our Watch
Title: On Our Watch
Character: Raffaello
Released: October 25, 2021
Type: Movie
Arturo loses his tech job to an algorithm he created and ends up working as a delivery man, monitored by an unreasonably strict app. His only solace comes from Stella, a hologram-for-girlfriend whose free trial is running out. Unable to renew the subscription due to his financial uncertainty, Arturo decides to take a stand.
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Ordinary Happiness
Title: Ordinary Happiness
Character: Paolo
Released: March 14, 2019
Type: Movie
Died in a car crash, Paolo is allowed to come back to life for 92 minutes more, thanks to a miscalculation made by Heavenly accountants. He decides to use this newfound time on Earth to fix his mistakes as a father and husband.
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Title: Il candidato va alle elezioni
Released: February 20, 2018
Type: TV
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Title: Caro Marziano
Released: May 3, 2017
Type: TV
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March of the Penguins 2: The Next Step
Title: March of the Penguins 2: The Next Step
Character: Narrator (italian voice)
Released: February 15, 2017
Type: Movie
A young penguin, driven by his instinct, embarks on his first major trip to an unknown destination.
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Title: Mafia Only Kills in Summer
Character: Narratore (voice)
Released: November 21, 2016
Type: TV
Palermo, 1979. The Giammarresi are a normal family — father, mother, a ten year old son and a daughter of sixteen — struggling with the problems of everyday life. Seemingly ordinary problems, oh, and the Cosa Nostra, the Sicilian Mafia. Inspired by Pierfrancesco “Pif” Diliberto's film.
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At War for Love
Title: At War for Love
Character: Arturo
Released: October 27, 2016
Type: Movie
It's 1943 and World War II is raging in Europe. In New York, Arturo and Flora the daughter of a restaurant owner are in love, but she is promised in marriage to the son of a Mafia boss. There is a way around this, but to be able to marry Flora, Arturo needs to get permission from her father, who lives in a village in Sicily. Arturo doesn't have any money, so the only way he can get to Sicily is to enlist in the U.S. Army, which is preparing for a landing on the island.
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Roberto Saviano: Writing Under Police Protection
Title: Roberto Saviano: Writing Under Police Protection
Character: Self - Interviewer / Narrator (voice)
Released: October 17, 2016
Type: Movie
An upbeat and humorous account of the hard life under police protection led by Italian writer Roberto Saviano since the publication in 2006 of Gomorrah, his controversial book about the Camorra, the ruthless organization that has dominated the criminal underground in Naples for centuries.
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Ridendo e scherzando - Ritratto di un regista all'italiana
Title: Ridendo e scherzando - Ritratto di un regista all'italiana
Character: Self
Released: October 18, 2015
Type: Movie
Speaking of serious things by making you laugh has always been the characteristic of Ettore Scola’s cinematic style. With the same intent, his daughters Paola and Silvia, using Pif’s verve as an interviewer, retrace their father’s career.
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Montalbano and Me: Andrea Camilleri
Title: Montalbano and Me: Andrea Camilleri
Released: September 6, 2014
Type: Movie
A profile of the author of the highly successful INSPECTOR MONTALBANO series, originally broadcast to mark his birthday.
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The Mafia Kills Only in Summer
Title: The Mafia Kills Only in Summer
Character: Arturo Giammaresi
Released: November 28, 2013
Type: Movie
While Arturo tries to gain the love of Flora, he witnesses the history of Sicily from 1969 to 1992, miraculously dodging the crimes of the Mafia and supporting as a journalist the heroic struggle of the judges and policemen who fought this infamous organization.
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Crazy Me
Title: Crazy Me
Character: Ludovico
Released: January 24, 2013
Type: Movie
Andrea is having a bad luck with girls. Maybe because he's only man in his big family which include mother, three sisters, grandma, nurse and a dog which is of course female also.
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Title: Il Testimone
Character: Self - Host
Released: October 8, 2007
Type: TV
"Il testimone" (i.e. The witness) is a tv show created, made and presented by Pif. Every episode consists of a "mini-reportage", filmed through a little camera that Pif brings himself. This makes the spectator feel as if most of the tv filtres are removed and thus they can almost witness the events with their own eyes and feel directly involved in the social messages brought on by the show. Themes vary: they go from interviews to famous individuals, to trips, to the work of associations or even small everyday realities.
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Title: Le Iene
Released: September 22, 1997
Type: TV
Comedy/satirical show, with sketches and reports into political affairs and consumer issues. Recurring features of the show, besides the reportage, are the double interviews in which two famous people are asked the same questions, and are edited together on a split screen, side by side so that they answer one after the other.