Pierfrancesco Diliberto nicknamed Pif born 1972 is an Italian television host film director actor and writer Pif was born in Palermo Italy on 4 June 1972 He is the son of the Italian director Maurizio Diliberto and has had a passion for cinema since his youth In 1998 he worked as assistant director to Marco Tullio Giordana for I cento passi The Hundred Steps a famous film against the mafia In the same year he started working as a television author at Mediaset In 2001 he started participating in Le Iene The Hyenas an Italian TV show with journalistic reporting characterized by a sharp satirical style In 2007 he started his own TV show Il Testimone The Witness on MTV In the show he uses an Autovox to create amateurlike reports in Italy and abroad In the same year he published his book Piffettopoli Le fatiche di un quasi vip In 2012 he published the short story Sarà stata una fuga di gas It Must Have Been a Gas Leak in the book Dove eravamo Ventanni dopo Capaci e Via DAmelio Where We Were Twenty Years After Capaci and Via DAmelio a miscellaneous volume commemorating the twentieth anniversary of the death of Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino two famous Sicilian judges who fought against the mafia and after being assassinated became symbols of the fight against the mafia in Italy In 2013 he started his film career by writing and directing The Mafia Kills Only in the Summer in which he also plays the leading role and from which he created the homonym TV series directed by Luca Ribuoli In 2016 at the Rome Film Festival his second film as director In guerra per amore Source Article Pif television host from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30