PIF
Pif, pseudonym of Pierfrancesco Diliberto, born in Palermo in 1972.
Son of the director Maurizio Diliberto and of the elementary school teacher Mariolina Caruso, from the age of ten he began to have a passion for cinema.
After attending scientific high school, he decides not to enroll in university, but moves to London where he takes part in some Media Practice courses.
He assists Marco Tullio Giordana in directing the film I cento passi (2000), dedicated to the anti-mafia activist Peppino Impastato and winner of four David di Donatello awards and an award at the Venice Film Festival.
Also in 1998 in Milan he took part in a Mediaset competition, becoming a television writer.
In 2001 he began a role as author of Candid & Video Show on Italia 1, and then more actively, first as author and then as correspondent, of the program Le Iene.
The nickname "Pif" is given to him by the "hyena" Marco Berry during a business trip.
In 2007 he started his first individual program, The Witness, also on MTV. 2011 sees him busy with Il testimone Vip, a program that closely tells the details of the daily life of personalities linked to sport, politics, entertainment.
In the meantime, he made his film directorial debut directing the film La mafia uccide solo d'estate, a dramatic comedy produced by Wildside and set in Palermo that traces the criminal events of the Cosa Nostra in Sicily during the twentieth century. In 2018 she published his first novel, ... che Dio perdona a tutti.
His latest work is the film And we like assholes stood and watched, played by Fabio De Luigi.
He is an Italian television presenter and writer, screenwriter, director, actor and radio host.