Leonardo Pirondi

Directing·São Paulo, Brazil

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LEONARDO PIRONDI (b. São Paulo, Brazil, 1999) is a Brazilian-Portuguese filmmaker and artist. His films create and inhabit alternate worlds that blur the lines between reality and fiction, challenging conventional storytelling structures. Pirondi's films have screened internationally at festivals such as the Toronto International Film Festival, Tiger Short Competition in Rotterdam, New York Film Festival, Viennale, Slamdance, Mar del Plata, IndieLisboa, FICUNAM, BFI London, Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, Edinburgh, Melbourne, Oberhausen, and Media City among others. His work has been presented in art centers such as the Museum of Modern Art Rio de Janeiro, CCCB in Spain, the Wexner Center for the Arts, and REDCAT. He has had solo shows at Galeria Mola in Portugal and Spectacle Theater in NYC. Some of his films live in the Cinematheque of the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro, UCLA Film & Television Archive collection, James Baldwin Library at MacDowell, and The Film-Makers' Coop. in New York City. He holds bachelor's and master's degrees in film from the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film in 2025, is a Sundance Institute Fellow, and was awarded a MacDowell Fellowship in 2025. His work has been featured in publications such as ARTFORUM, Filmmaker Magazine, MUBI Notebook, Senses of Cinema, Talking Shorts, and InReview Online. His short and feature films have been supported by the Instituto do Cinema e do Audiovisual of Portugal (ICA), the Locarno Residency, Projeto Paradiso, the Allan Sekula Social Documentary Fund, San Diego Underground Arts, and the Tim Disney Prize for Excellence in the Storytelling Arts. He is a programmer for the Climate Film Festival NYC and is part of the board of directors and selection committee for Badam Film and its film development fund.

Film	Credit
Tropical Fractals2026 · Director, Writer, Producer, Director of Photography	Director, Writer, Producer, Director of Photography
Memoirs Found in a Bathtub2026 · Voice, Director, Producer	Voice, Director, Producer
Travelers' Suite2026 · Director, Director of Photography, Producer	Director, Director of Photography, Producer
When We Encounter the World2024 · Director, Producer, Director of Photography, Writer	Director, Producer, Director of Photography, Writer
The Instability of Clouds2024 · Producer	Producer
Adrift Potentials2024 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
SMPTE FOREST2023 · Director	Director
Welcome Home2023 · Director	Director
The Perfect Room2022 · Director	Director
What Remains2022 · Director	Director
Vision of Paradise2022 · Narrator, Director, Producer, Writer	Narrator, Director, Producer, Writer
Breaking Myths2022 · Director of Photography	Director of Photography
Effulgent Gleam2022 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
If a Tree Falls in a Forest2021 · Director, Writer, Producer	Director, Writer, Producer
In Search of Mount Analogue2021 · Director, Director of Photography	Director, Director of Photography
Benning's Dream2021 · Self (voice), Producer, Director	Self (voice), Producer, Director
Earth Had Issues Loading...2020 · Producer, Director	Producer, Director
This is Mine, This is Yours2019 · Director	Director
FForking PathsDirector, Producer	Director, Producer