Antonio Pannolino, born in 1969, the son of a sculptor and a cheesemaker, and the youngest of 4 brothers, left school at the age of 14 to become a painter. He soon realised that his first love was film making, and at the age of 16, while working in his mother’s cheese shop in Naples, he made his first short film on super 8 entitled “I Ladri di Formaggio” (“The Cheese Thieves”). After winning second prize at the Venice Film Festival in 1986, he toured the world with his 4 minute epic, and after a short stay in Morocco he settled in London in 1998 where he has been attempting to raise finances for his first feature film; a combined remake of his two favourite films - Cinema Paradiso and Pulp Fiction.