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In Toronto he wrote, directed, produced, cast and anchored 3 TV Series for a total of 39 episodes.

Kazaliste Theater in Rijeka (Yugoslavia).

In Northern Italy and in Toronto he wrote, directed and produced over 100 TV commercials that were broadcast locally and nationally in several languages. As an artistic photographer, he recently took the photos for the posters of the second, the third and the fourth editions of the Brasov International Film Festival & Market. Today, he is the Chairman of the Board of three Canadian Corporations, the President of a Canadian Corporation that is public in New York City and the Executive in charge of Brasov Talent Agency - a Division of Global Film Studio Inc. In 1961 in Udine, he produced, directed and perfeormed in a "Recital of Poems and Monologues by Shakespeare". In 1962 in Udine he produced, directed and performed in a

"Recital of Poems and Lyrics by Bertolt Brecht". In 1963 in Udine he performed in "La Pesca", a drama by Eugene O'Neill.

In those first years of his life he was blessed to know and to befriend the local intellectuals. He was a personal friend of writers such as Tito Maria Maniacco, Elio Bartolini and Amedeo Giacomini, of artists such as Mario Baldan and Mimmo Biasi, of philosophers such as Sergio Sarti, of actress Rosita Toros and director Giorgio Marini and many others. They constituted the local "intelligentsia". Some of them were much older than he was, and his cultural education was, in many ways, formed by their influence. Pischiutta remained their friend for many years later.

In 1964 he performed in a drama of Father David Maria Turoldo, "Quando La Terra E' Madre" in Udine in the San Francis' Monumental Church. He played in "Pentecost" 1965, another Turoldo drama, in the Velodromo Vigorelli in front of an audience of 9,000 people. He was honored to perform before the Cardinal Giovanni Montini who, few months later, became Pope Paul VI. In 1965, at 18 years old, he moved to Trieste where he graduated from the Institute of Dramatic Arts and he became a professional actor. In Trieste he worked as an actor at RAI radio and in theater. In 1966, at 19, he become an actor in the Italian language theater group of the Narodno

Some of the plays he performed in while at the Narodno Kazaliste Theater in Rijeka are: The "Song of the Lusitanian Bogey" by Peter Weiss, directed by Francesco Macedonio; "The Miser" by Molière;

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