La Dolce Vita describe intrusive photographers. As to the origin of the character's name itself, Fellini scholar Peter Bondanella argues that although "it is indeed an Italian family name, the word is probably a corruption of the word "papataceo", a large and bothersome mosquito. Ennio Flaiano, the film's co-screenwriter and creator of Paparazzo, reports that he took the name from a character in a novel by George Gissing." Gissing's character, Signor Paparazzo, is found in his travel book, "By the Ionian Sea" (1901). Marcello is a journalist in Rome during the late 1950s who covers tabloid news of movie stars, religious visions and
La vita non perde valore on his activity with the former child soldiers of Sierra Leone. "La vita non perde valore" is the documentary that came out, it is a focus "[not] on the human drama, but how it was dealt with and resolved." Premiered in 2012, the film was also released in an English-language version the same year. The documentary has been analyzed in different Universities, becoming subject of various degree thesis, La vita non perde valore La vita non perde valore ("Life does not lose its value") is a 2012 documentary film about the reintegration into society of former child soldiers in Sierra