Diego Pascal Panarello, from Sicily, began his artistic career by founding, together with a group of friends, the collective “Psycho Freak Explosion” with which he made a dozen short films. In collaboration with psychotherapist/performer Robero Penzo he directs a trilogy of documentaries financed by the European community on the theme of 'love in the world of disability.

“The Strange Sound of Happiness” is his first feature film.