I'm Francesco, a 23 y.o boy from Italy. I'm almost finished with my cinema and photography studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples. Actually I work as a freelance photographer and videomaker. I'm now finishing some documentary shootings on a social drama we have in Italy, it will be a nice watch!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I'm on this site to get in touch with people from other cultures and to meet up with them who are interested in sharing culture, interests, and couches, obviously :))

Interests

My major interests are about:

Music: I played guitar for 9 years (classic and electric), and I listen almost to every kind of music. Really open minded on it. I can also play a bit piano, and I'm learning violin (it's difficult :D)

Photo\Video: I'm a photographer interested in Landscapes, Portraits, Reportages, b\w photos. To the other hand, as a videographer I like mostly doing documentaries.

Sports: I practice skydiving and rock climbing mostly. I'm in fond also with sports like free diving, mountainbiking and snowboarding

Life: I love to travel, read, write, walking in the nature, trekking on mountains and enjoying life as I can. I'm interested also in things like physics (strictly linked to my passion for skydiving) and psychology.

• arts
• culture
• humanities
• photography
• documentaries
• walking
• movies
• traveling
• music
• guitar
• piano
• violin
• cycling
• scuba diving
• skydiving
• snowboarding
• sports
• rock climbing
• freelancing
• physics
• psychology
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

I listen almost every kind of music, classical, rock, metal, electronic, folk etc.

More than favourite movies, I have fav. directors: Peter Jackson (The lord of the rings above all! ), Wes Anderson, Terrence Malick (the thin red line), Quentin Tarantino (Pulp and Inglorious Basterds)

Books. Too many books. I can just say The Lord of the Rings (surprise!) and Silmarillion from J.R.R Tolkien, Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer, many classic books as The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Phantom of The Opera, Baudelaire Poetries, and almost every book which talks about travels.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I don't think I do amazing things, by the fact that for me everything I do is normal, at least for me it is.
Anyway if jumping from planes with a parachute and climbing rocks is normal also for you, (trust me, many people just for that call me mad), I've done a travel from south to North Italy by bike in 2013, about 1000 km.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach some Italian as well, and how to throw yourself out of a plane :D

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can share all my interests, my stories, my music, photographs, my experiences, who I am.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland

Countries I’ve Lived In

Italy