Book to Screen Adaptation Project
We are currently in the initial stages of adapting Killing Justice for the screen. I will be adapting my memoir in partnership with award-winning Canadian filmmaker Bernard Gray and multi-talented Italian producers Claudia Moretto and Nina Monica Scalabrin. The tentative working title for the film adaptation is "Orphan Rising."
Bernard Gray
Bernard Gray is an award-winning film director and writer recognized for innovative storytelling and visual artistry. With three acclaimed short films already released—including the celebrated The Other Stuff—and a third, Only A Man, set to premiere in 2026, Bernard has quickly established a reputation for excellence in the film industry.
His work has garnered awards at major film festivals, showcasing a distinctive voice and a commitment to authentic, raw, gritty, character-driven narratives. In addition to success with short films, Bernard Gray is currently developing two feature films, including Pops—a deeply personal story based on his childhood growing up in Toronto's west end—and two television shows, Uptown Saturday and Love Thy Neighbour, further expanding his creative reach. Through diverse projects and a passion for
exploring new cinematic territory, Bernard Gray continues to inspire audiences and make a lasting impact on contemporary cinema.
CLAUDIA MORETTO
Born in Milan but residing in Venice, she is the youngest of a family of artists stretching back across the generations. During her adolescence, she developed a passion for music, a gift she inherited from her maternal great-grandfather. Her warm, soulful voice blends perfectly with the piano, which Claudia plays as a self-taught musician. Yet adolescence is long, and Claudia often changed artistic paths, while always preserving the talents passed down from her ancestors.
Upon reaching adulthood, she embarked on a journey through the fashion world. To broaden her knowledge of that world, in 2014 she founded her personal social influencer project called Love Angeles, inspired by the famous American city where she lived for a time, studying and working as a model. In 2015, together with photographer and make-up artist Paolo Tosetto (Vogue Italia), she produced her first major photo shoot. Other collaborations followed with important editorials, including the renowned Playboy.
Like many of her closest relatives, in 2016 she discovered she had inherited the gift of writing, and in 2017 she completed her first screenplay titled The Fake, a projection of her mysterious and slightly noir instinct. Claudia is a versatile artist who has inherited many artistic aptitudes and ventured into a number of artistic fields, achieving remarkable results in each.
Together with Nina Monica Scalabrin, they founded their own entertainment agency “Vanessa Global Entertainment”, and in November 2023 they co-wrote their first book, Dietro lo scatto la mente, a sensory journey through the world of contemporary art in general. The following year, a second edition was published.
Together with Nina Monica Scalabrin, she has now expanded her artistic endeavors into the film industry, as a producer and executive producer for both Photogame and Mister Parkinson, which is currently in production.
NINA MONICA SCALABRIN
Nina Monica Scalabrin was born and studied in Milan. It was in this great metropolis that her transformation from student to young writer took place. At age 17, she published her first book Errori di stagione, released by Rizzoli Editore under the guidance of the renowned editor Aurelio Sioli. At the age of 22, she obtained her first important position at a prestigious publishing house, working in the Oscar Mondadori section alongside then-director Ferruccio Parazzoli, who initially helped her find her way in the world of publishing. Thanks to Ferruccio, who became her literary mentor, her career as a writer, journalist, and editor merged into a single artistic endeavor, leading to collaborations with numerous Italian magazines. Yet her heart has always remained tied to writing and publishing.
Her uniqueness is a gift, and her vocation for imagination places her among the universe of visionary writers—qualities that have allowed her to develop her own narrative style, free from social conventions. In 2013, she successfully published her private diary, a book written in the form of an epistolary tale addressed to an imaginary, mysterious, and cruel man who, in 2006, destroyed her family by striking her young mother and leaving her completely paralyzed. The book, with the emblematic title Mr. Parkinson, is a moving confessional tale that definitively established her as someone to watch among a new generation of writers. From this work, she also developed her first screenplay.
From that moment on, she also began her career in the film industry, as a screenwriter, producer, and executive producer. Among her most recent works are the film Photogame, co-written with the renowned Franco Ferrini (Once Upon a Time in America), soon to be released in theaters both nationally and internationally, and Mister Parkinson, which will be shot between the United States and Italy, and which is currently in production.
Among her editorial projects are I diritti dell’anima and La vera storia di Zara Viel, currently in progress.