Leonardo Carrano (Rome, 1958). After studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome he began working as a painter and graphic designer, and obtained his first prestigious recognition in 1980 with the Lubiam prize awarded by Renato Guttuso. Since 1992 he has been involved in experimental animated cinema; his works, the result of the combination of different techniques and languages, halfway between abstract and referential, are soon noticed by critics and selected in important festival in italy and abroad (Venice, Rome, Locarno, Montreal, Paris, Berlin, Zagreb, Casablanca, Shanghai, Beijing, Milan, Naples, Palermo).