Francesco Erba was born in Bergamo in 1986, where he spent his entire childhood and attended the State Art School and graduated in sculpture in 2005. After the Art School diploma, he decided to follow his dream, and in 2005 he moved to Rome, where attended the Motion-Picture Direction Course, held by Stefano Bessoni, at Nuct (New University for Cinema and Television). He post-graduated in 2007.