Corrado Farina's first fiction film was an 8mm short he wrote, directedand starred in when he was 20 years old. He went on to direct around 20such films, spanning such genres as horror, SF, war, comedy and drama.After graduating in law, he was hired as a copywriter in theadvertising agency Armando Testa. There, he quickly started to directhis own commercials. After a few years he quit and moved to Rome wherehe started directing documentaries and started pitching ideas formovies. Besides his two feature films, he directed countlessdocumentaries and commercials. In 1994 he published his first novel, amovie-related mystery titled "Un posto al buio" (A Place in the Dark).More novels followed: "Giallo antico" (An Ancient Mystery, 1999),"Storia di sesso e di fumetto" (A Tale of Sex and Comics, 2001),"Dissolvenza incrociata" (Cross Fade, 2002), "Il calzolaio" (TheShoemaker, 2004), "Il cielo sopra Torino" (The Sky Above Torino, 2006).Both "Giallo antico" and "Dissolvenza incrociata" have a movie theme:the first one connects the shooting of "Cabiria" (1914) with the deathof Italian novelist Emilio Salgari, and the second takes place in Turinin the Fifties, during the shoot of a swashbuckling film. In February2006, he created and co-directed withAlberto Farina a montage documentarycalled "Motore!" designed to be shown in Turin's "Museo del cinema"during the Winter Olympic Games.