Born in Florence, degree in law, won a scholarship to attend a screenwriting at the Holden School. Se got a master degree from the Cinema, Television and the New Media in Milan. Television director for private broadcaster Mediaset and La7 in Italy.
Her first short "Parole Rubate - Stolen Words", in Super 16 mm, was distributed by Blockbuster and included in a Dvd containing the best Italian short made in 2004. She participated in International film festival, won awards and broadcast a TV programme for Channel 5, Mediaset. She has directed the first interactive fiction for 3, H3g telephone company.
The script of "Divini Incontri D'orgasmo - Get Orgasmic & Divine" was one of the finalists for "The British Short Screenplay Competition". The short, in Super 16 mm, won the Kodak award in Linea d'Ombra, as the best European short, and others awards, and screened at many International Festival. She was asked to write a script for a long feature film to participate in the NHK International Filmmakers Award, at the Sundance Festival. She was also one of the directors selected to participate in the 2005 Berlinale Talent Campus. She was the director of "Giustizia divina", in HD, a short film belonging to the "Corti Pluriel" commissioned by Solinas Award and Istituto Luce which was shown in Venice in 2005. The feature script "L'amore Incompreso" was finalist at Autumn Film Festival. The short script "The 5 o'clock tea" has won the first award for script play at Kinokitchen Festival.
The Monash University, Australia, has included Barbara in a book "Contemporary Italian Female Filmmakers".
She is screenwriter and director of "5 seconds to stole a life", documentary in Hd, a safety road campaign for High schools in Italy.
