Fantasma Neon
AWARD: FIRST PRIZE INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 2022
INSTITUTE: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)
YEAR : 2021
LANGUAGE: Portuguese
SYNOPSIS: A delivery man dreams of having a motorcycle. He was told that everything would be like a musical film.
PROFILE: Leonardo Martinelli is an audiovisual artist from Rio de Janeiro. His films have been selected at more than three hundred film festivals and museums worldwide, including Locarno, San Sebastian, BFI London, Clermont-Ferrand, Montreal and others. Through a vote among several film critics, Leonardo Martinelli was listed as one of the Top 10 New Brazilian Filmmakers by Papo de Cinema. In 2021, his film Fantasma Neon won the Golden Leopard for Best International Short Film at the Locarno Film Festival. He is also a Master’s candidate in Social Communication at PUC-Rio.
