Michele Zatta

Former travel-guide, copywriter and lawyer, Zatta started his career in television as an editor of tv-movies and series. In 1994, he developed together with the Australian writer Wayne Doyle to create the first Italian soap, Un Posto Al Sole, which started in October 1996 and is still on air. He worked for 12 years as co-headwriter and producer whilst also dealing with a prime-time cop-series La Squadra that lasted 8 seasons as well as another soap, Cuori Rubati and a couple of tv-movies. In 2008, Zatta became headwriter of the soap Agrodolce. Soon after, he became an executive in this fiction department at Rai. In this position he dealt with the editorial and productive process of various projects (tv- movies, mini-series, long running series), keeping a strong focus on the narrative development. The most recent series he has worked on are La Porta Rossa, a paranormal thriller in which the protagonist has to find out who killed him, Di Padre in Figlia, an intense family saga that take