NEON PHANTOM

A delivery man dreams of having a motorcycle. He was told that everything would be like a musical film.

Leonardo Martinelli is a filmmaker from Rio de Janeiro. His films have been selected at more than three hundred film festivals and museums worldwide, including Locarno, San Sebastián, BFI London, Clermont-Ferrand, Palm Springs, 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 also holds a Master's degree in Social Communication at PUC-Rio.