Federico Moccia

Federico Moccia (born 20 July 1963) is an Italian writer, screenwriter and film director.

Following his successful book and film I Want You [it] many people put love padlocks on Ponte Milvio in Rome[1] and other places around the world.

It started in the world of work from his father at age 19 as assistant director Attila flagello di Dio (1982).

In 1996, again without success, he wrote and directed the film Classe mista 3ª A [it] and returned to the world of television.

In 2004, twelve years after its first edition, Three Meters Above Heaven had a reissue, becoming a bestseller and leading to a movie of the same title, also receiving several awards and translations into several languages (also Portuguese and Japanese).

Federico Moccia
The "love padlocks" in Rome