After graduating from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome under Giuseppe Rotunno, she began her career on set. In 2007, she was an intern on Matteo Garrone’s film Gomorrah and studied at the Budapest Cinematography Masterclass with Vilmos Zsigmond. Since 2009, she has worked as a freelance director of photography.
Her debut in feature film cinematography was with Guido Lombardi’s La bas, which won the Leone d’Oro for Best First Feature at the Venice International Film Festival in 2011. Her second feature film was Song e Napul, directed by the Manetti Bros, with whom she started a long collaboration in 2012. This collaboration led to her first Nastro d’Argento nomination in 2018 for the film Ammore e Malavita, making her the first woman ever nominated for a Nastro d’Argento in the history of the Italian Film Journalists’ Syndicate. She was later nominated for the Nastro d’Argento for Diabolik, also by the Manetti Bros, and for La tristezza ha il sonno leggero, directed by Mario De Notaris.
Her work with the Manetti Bros extended to TV series, including Il commissario Rex (two seasons) and L’ispettore Coliandro (four seasons). Since 2021, she has been working on the TV series Mare fuori, serving as the director of photography for the second, third, fourth, and fifth seasons, working with directors Milena Cocozza, Ivan Silvestrini, and Ludovico Di Martino.
In addition to her work as a director of photography, she has been teaching Cinematography Techniques at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Naples since 2018.
