(B. 1938, Milan, Italy) Bruno Bozzetto created his first animated short “Tapum, the weapons’ history” back in 1958 at the age of 20. This animated short sparked interest at the Cannes Festival and made it possible for him to meet Norman McLaren, a Canadian master of animation, as well as John Halas, a British film producer who offered him the chance of collaborating.

In 1960 the Bruno Bozzetto Film Company was established in Milan. This business covered film production, advertising and television too and saw the start of a very active cooperation within a team of young drawers, animators and script-writers, among whom Guido Manuli, Giuseppe Laganà,Giovanni Mulazzani, and Maurizio Nichetti only to mention a few of them.

In 1965 , Bruno Bozzetto was the only Italian to create and produce an animated feature film in over 20 years of stillness, “West and Soda” followed by “Vip my brother superman” (1968) and by “Allegro non Troppo” (1976), the italian answer to the famous “Fantasia” by Walt Disney.

The film has been screened and appreciated by the American critics long before it was even released in Italy or Europe.

One of Bozzetto’s most famous creations was a funny character known as “Mr Rossi” who has starred in many animated short films and three feature films destined to both TV and cinema.

Throughout his career, he produced many animated shorts which were sold and screened all over the world and for which he received many awards including The Golden Bear Award for “Mr Tao” at the Berlin Film Festival and an Oscar Nomination for “Grasshoppers” in 1991.

Bruno Bozzetto was assigned the Pulcinella Lifetime Achievement Award 2006 and along with him Roy Edward Disney, Walt Disney’s nephew, was awarded too.

Bruno Bozzetto took part to many international juries all around the world and his works have been the core focus for more than 10 thesis within the animation studies field.

A prolific artist, Bozzetto has always asserted that animation can make hard scientific concepts more understandable to the common audience.

From the 90ies onward, his growing interest towards the technological innovations and the 2D animation technique encouraged him to release “Europe and Italy”, the first and the most popular of the numerous animation shorts for the Web created by him with Macromedia flash.

Since 2008 Bruno Bozzetto has been constantly working over the very recent 2D/Flash and 3D animation techniques.