Born in Varese and educated in pedagogy at the University of Bologna, Campiotti began his artistic path in theater before assisting Mario Monicelli on several films and joining Ermanno Olmi’s “Ipotesi Cinema” collective, where he produced early short pieces for Rai Uno. His first feature, Spring Run (1989), earned a Critics’ Week slot at Venice and a Giffoni Festival prize, while the 1994 drama Tw…
