Federico Pistono

I work for a video production company based in Verona as a filmmaker, screenwriter and web developer. I earned a Bachelor in Computer Science at the University of Verona in 2009.

I am a blogger, computer scientist, social activist, aspiring film director and amateur musician. I blog about cinema, software development, Open Source, environmetal issues, new technologies, and freedom of expression in various blogs, communities and newspapers, google me for some more info.

In 2007 I founded a non profit organisation (Grilli biellesi), which deals with local social issues, particularly with problems related to the environment.

In 2009 I won an international blogging competition about climate change organised by the European Journalism Centre, and a trip to the COP15.

As of now, I'm mostly active as webmaster and Italian chapter coordinator of the "Zeitgeist Movement", which aims to: "[...] restore the fundamental necessities and environmental awareness of the species through the advocation of the most current understandings of who and what we truly are, coupled with how science, nature and technology (rather than religion, politics and money) hold the keys to our personal growth, not only as individual human beings, but as a civilization, both structurally and spiritually. The central insights of this awareness is the recognition of the Emergent and Symbiotic elements of natural law and how aligning with these understandings as the bedrock of our personal and social institutions, life on earth can and will flourish into a system which will continuously grow in a positive way, where negative social consequences, such as social stratification, war, biases, elitism and criminal activity will be constantly reduced and, idealistically, eventually become nonexistent within the spectrum of human behavior itself".

I'm actually pretty serious about it =)

Formal presentation

Federico Pistono is a filmmaker, blogger and computer scientist. In 2002, at the age of 16, he receives a full scholarship for the international college UWCAD, a placed focused on the international understanding between different cultures, living away from home together with 200 students from 82 countries.
In 2007 he founds the "Grilli biellesi" (http://grillibiellesi.org), a non-profit organisation which deals with social issues, particularly with energy, the environment, information, waste, connectivity and water as a right to life.
Since 2008, he works in a media farm in Verona as filmmaker and web programmer, with a focus on new media and on how new technologies affect society as a whole.
In 2009 he receives a Bachelor of Science in Informatics at the University of Verona, department of Mathematical, Physics, and Natural Sciences, with the dissertation "Open Source implementations of encoding algorithms for video distribution in the HTML5 era".
In 2009 he wins an international blogging and journalism competition about climate change organised by the European Journalism Centre, he's sent as a reporter to the COP15 in Copenhagen (http://federicopistono.org).
Since 2009 he's Italian chapter coordinator of the Zeitgeist Movement (http://zeitgeistitalia.org), and international movement defined as the "activist arm" of the Venus Project. The Venus Project is a non-profit organisation that proposes a feasible plan of action for social change; one that works toward a peaceful and sustainable global civilization, calling for a straightforward redesign of our culture in which the age-old problems of war, poverty, hunger, debt, and unnecessary human suffering are viewed not only as avoidable, but as totally unacceptable. As of July 2010, after little more than a year after it was founded, the Zeitgeist Movement has more than 420 thousand members from all over the world.

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