Born in Egypt and raised in Great Britain and France, Elio Zarmati was a reporter at NBC, a writer-direc­tor of films and TV shows in France and in the Unit­ed States, the CEO of an inter­na­tion­al film sub­ti­tling and dub­bing com­pa­ny, Gelu­la & Co., and the pub­lish­er of YWD mag­a­zine and the edi­tor-in-chief of Recov­ery Liv­ing mag­a­zine. He lives in Tarzana, California.