Flavio Rizzo was born in Rome where he received an Italian Laurea in Literature and Philosophy at Rome University III with a specialization in Cinema Studies. He is now an ABD in Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
His interests are: Cinema Studies, 20th Century American Writing, Italian Literature, Italian American Studies and Asian Studies.
He has been teaching Comparative Literature at Queens College focusing on comparing western and non-western literatures. In his classes on Cinema Studies he has been concentrating on cinema from around the world studying films from: Iran, Vietnam, China, Japan, Brazil, Africa, Europe and USA.
He is also a filmmaker; in 1995 he won the ìCinema Avvenireî award at the Venice Film Festival with a documentary on Italian filmmaker/writer Pier Paolo Pasolini. He wrote and directed several projects of fiction and non-fiction; the last one is a documentary on an orphanage in Bolivia and the social background of the ìCoca Warî in the Amazon forest
Languages
Italian, French, Spanish