Guido Muzzarelli is a San Francisco-based filmmaker and animator.
He has worked on many feature films over the past decade, for directors
such as Robert Zemeckis, Guillermo Del Toro, The Brothers Wachowski,
and Shane Acker. His animation work can be seen in a variety of feature films
ranging from blockbusters to smaller independents. He is a first-generation
Italian-American, the son of a doctor in a family of doctors from the Adriatic
coast of Italy near Fermo. Guido's journey into filmmaking began at age 10
with creating Super-8mm animated short films.
After graduating from the U.C.L.A. School of Film,
Theater, and Television, Guido spent much of his 20s travelling
through far-flung places around the globe. He saw first-hand
the manner in which modern society has increasingly eaten at
the roots of indigenous dispossessed cultures, particularly in his
journey to Tibet in 2002, where he was inspired by the resilience
of the spirit of the Tibetans in the villages dotting the countryside
against the encroachment of the Chinese oppressors. These observations became the foundation of
the central theme of cultural survival and perseverance in "Island of the Gondoliers", and it is a theme he intends to pursue in future projects.
