Leonardo Martinelli

*1998, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Filmmaker
Residency 25.10. - 19.12.2021 - in collaboration with the Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur

Martinelli is a filmmaker from Rio de Janeiro and a Master's candidate in Social Communication at PUC-Rio researching contemporary short films. As a director, his films have been selected at more than three hundred film festivals and museums worldwide, including Locarno, San Sebastian, BFI London and others. In 2020, through a vote among several film critics, Leonardo Martinelli was mentioned as one of the Top 10 New Brazilian Filmmakers by Papo de Cinema. In 2021, his film Fantasma Neon won the Pardino D'oro in the International Short Film Competition of the Locarno Film Festival.