Leonardo Corbucci Zanobi

Biography:

Leonardo Corbucci Zanobi is born in Rome, Italy (1980), in a typical bourgeoisie Italian family, in the patriarchal system ruled by the Grandfather. He followed the direction of his family until the age of 18, when he decided to follow his own path. Movie making.

"Step by step I started to watch movies with the curiosity of what was behind, because until really young I am dreaming with open eyes, but in the same time I recognized that somehow I am a really concrete person, and then I found out that with Movies you can visually build your dreams. Also in that period I lost my first and biggest love, the shock of "love is not forever" also "helped me" to decide to continue my life with a new meaning, Cinema."

1999-2001, Rome, Italy. He shot several short films (now available in a DVD compilation called "The little shop of Dazzled") while he attended the Italian Film School. His first influences came from Italian Neorealism, Federico Fellini, and most of all Francois Truffaut whom he loves as a father and brother, and who is still Leonardo's Master of Life and Cinema thinking). Also in this period he was influenced by Emir Kusturica and after 3 years of school under the Kusturica influence he released his first Feature Film project: " Cinecitta' Story! " (82'minutes, 16mm).

"In my first movie experience I remember my idea to make movies was very clear, but the "how to" was not. There was a period we made a magazine of cinema under the company PRIMOCIAK (that produced the movie Cinecitta' Story). I remember I was repeating all the time to my friends "We don't argue if we will make movies, but how we will do it!".

2001-2005, AROUND THE WORLD.  After the Italian Film School experience, he decided to leave Italy, and travel all around the world. His ambitious project of step in each country of the planet start. The first digital shoots started in New York in the far January 2001. With his still camera Leonardo collect pictures and moment from all around the WORLD. From Asia to Europe, From South America to Alaska.

"I was really fascinated by traveling all around the world and I started in this period to do it. Also my experience in the Italian Film School was so bad, so bad… Everyday arrogance, envy, corruption, hypocrisy, and false intellectualism made me disgusted with my country (a disgust I recovered from after being 7 years away from my land). New York was "just" far, new and extremely different from where I was before".

2005-2009, AROUND THE WORLD.  This is  a really good period, during he continued to travel all around the world. He takes specializations courses at UCLA and in NYFA. Leonardo's films from this period have won and been shown in many Festivals. From this period are the documentary about Fidel Castro "Looking For Fidel" (70'min,  HD), the western "The Purgatory" (15'min, B&W, 16mm), and "GL0514" (10'min, B&W, 16mm). “My Church is better than yours” (15’min HD).

"In these past few years, a lot of things have happened to me, I met three times the people of previous years, changed more places where I lived, I started to have a lot of experiences and friends in different Countries (different cultures and ways of life), in this last period I thought more about a sentence that my Master of Cinema and Life François Truffaut said "What is more important, life or Cinema? ". Today I still think about this question and today I still don't have an answer for the simple reason that there is no answer (my life is Cinema, my Cinema is my life)."

2010- to Present, LOS ANGELES. After more then 10 years of traveling, visiting all the Countries of the World, Leonardo finally establish himself in Los Angeles (California, Usa). He found with other film makers; Embassies of Cinema, The New Guys Media group and Leonardo Films. From this period is the Feature Film “ONE MORE TIME” (72’ minutes REDONE 4K), commercials and music videos. And Most of all the Feature Film "Black & White in Colors" (80'minutes, 35mm/2K) that is now in Festival circuit worldwide.

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