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Biography
Giulio Gianini was born in Rome in 1927. He received his diploma from the Academy of Fine Arts in scenography. Soon he had devoted to photography primarily specializing in colour as of the forties. In 1951 he won the prestigeous Golden Ribbon prize for photography. As a director of photography, Gianini worked on various documentaries, among others a film on Picasso produced by Luciano Emmer, in addition to his fictional films. When at the end of the fifties he met a scenographer, costumer and illustrator Emanuele Luzzati, he began his work in animation. These two filmmakers together made several short and long films that have won a broad international recognition. Gianini also worked with many other authors like Leo Lionni, with whom he produced five fairytales for children and Michel Folon on a documentary commissioned by Olivetti. He had conducted numerous seminars and courses on animation in Amenabad, India (1967), CAMS in Rome (1983) and Annecy (1989). In his last years he was a professor of animation at the Experimental Film Centre in Rome, where he died in 2009.