Roberto De Feo was born in Bari on the 8th of August 1981. He attended the Genoa film school (Sdac) before moving to Rome. In 2001 he won the PUGLIA EXPERIENCE European call, that granted him the participation to a workshop about scriptwriting, film direction and film production held by Gabriele Salvatores, Sergio Rubini, Domenico Procacci, Tilde Corsi, Carlo Degli Esposti, Edoardo Winspeare and Alessandro Piva.