Fausto Brizzi

He didn't become famous until 2006, although he had been working in movies and television for over a decade. Like many other aspiring filmmakers living in the Rome area, Fausto Brizzi studied at the Centro Sperimentale, and after graduating in 1994 he started looking for work. Initially, the 28-year old was employed exclusively in the production of stage plays, and it took Brizzi another four years before he got his first major job: writing the script of the TV series _"Lui e lei" (1998)_. Other small-screen projects followed, cementing his reputation as one of Italy's most prolific screenwriters. The transition from television to cinema took place in 1999, when renowned producer Aurelio De Laurentiis, nephew of Dino De Laurentiis, asked Brizzi to write _Tifosi (1999)_, a Christmas comedy starring Massimo Boldi and Christian De Sica. The film performed quite well at the Italian box office (as is customary with the Boldi & De Sica movies), prompting De Laurentiis to keep Brizzi on boar