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He was born in Rome in 1983, his famili of Spartan Tradition abandones him on the bottotm of a cliff, to make him learn to live. Little Raffaele begins to survive developing a passion for monsters and creating stories not to go completely nuts and become a serial killer. Raised and civilized from the Orissa tribe, he goes back to Italy, well accepted from his family that favours his artistic madness and so he begins to attend “Roberto Rossellini” Cinema Institute in Roma. At the end of his studies, he suddenly begins to work for catholic televisions as a slave for ENG troupes. After three years, sick and tired of this world, he leaves it all and begins to work at King Solomon's Goldmines for four long years. After the riot and severely psychologically stricken, he funds “Fingerchop Movie” with Gianluigi Perrone, Vincenzo manzo, Pierpaolo Santagostino and comes out with his first Feature Film, “MORITURIS” (2011) that becomes a little international hit because of its violent contents and takes part at the most important genre Festivals such as Sitges, Montreal's “Fantasia” and German Fantasy Film Festival.

Particularly loved in Italy, whose Ministry Of Fine Arts denies him the Censorship, “MORITURIS” is nowadays the only Feature Film directed by Raffaele Picchio. “M IS FOR MOUTH” is his second work, a Short Movie shot for the “ABC of DEATH”'s contest, regularly refused, but it has had such a good feedback in the scene. He shot Music Videos for Cripple Bastards and Aborym and worked as an Assistant Director and Co-Scriptwriter for Short Movies “RECORDING” directed by Stefano Rossi and “FINCHE' MORTE NON CI SEPARI” for collective Feature Film “17 A MEZZANOTTE”, and then, still as an Assistant Director and Co-Scriptwriter Tiziano Martella's “MY GIFT TO YOU” for the French-Italian collective project “PHANTASMAGORIA”. Nowadays, he seems to be disappeared...someone says he's preparing some new secret works that will make him even more popular. Others say he's back to the Orissa Tribe in charge of Village Chief.

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