Filming began on Monday 9 March in Milan My name is Carlo, the television drama dedicated to the life of Carlo Acutis, the young Milanese saint has become a spiritual point of reference for many young people from all over the world in recent years, particularly in the United States and South America. The production, signed by RTI and Skipless Italia, will be broadcast in the coming months on Channel 5.
The first take was done right in the Lombard capital, the city where Carlo was born and raised.
The fiction, directed by Giacomo Campiotti and written together with Carlo Mazzottawill tell in about one hundred minutes the short but intense life of the young man, capable of combining faith, technology, friendship and attention towards others. Acutis died at just fifteen years old due to fulminant leukemia and was proclaimed a saint on 7 September 2025 in St. Peter’s Square by Pope Leo XIV.
The television story will retrace three key moments in his life: childhood at six years old, when a particular spiritual sensitivity already emerges; the eleven years old, marked by curiosity and numerous interests; and finally i fifteen years, when he attends high school and is now a mature and aware teenager.
The young actor will play fifteen-year-old Carlo Samuele Carrino, already appreciated by the public for the role of Andrea Spezzacatena in the film The boy with the pink pants. Alongside him, in the role of his mother Antonia Salzano, she will act Lucia Mascino, well-known face on Italian television thanks to his participation in series such as Don Matteo, Suburra And The BarLume crimes.
A woman praying in front of the mortal remains of San Carlo Acutis kept in the Sanctuary of the Spogliazione in Assisi
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One of the most original aspects of the figure of Carlo Acutis – often defined as the “saint of millennials” – was his passion for information technology. From a very young age he used his digital skills to spread religious content and talk about Eucharistic miracles in the world, showing how the internet could also become a tool for evangelization.
After the Milanese filming, the troupe will move to Assisi, where his tomb is kept today and where thousands of pilgrims arrive every year. The fiction aims to tell precisely this: the simple and surprising story of a boy capable of speaking to the faith of the new generations.
