MAX MASSIMINO GARNIER

Max Massimino Garnier (born Giorgio, Turin, 7 October 1924) is an Italian screenwriter and director active in the field of animation cinema.
He graduated in mathematical physics at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa and, in 1954, together with Paul Campani, he founded the Paul Film in Modena, which since 1957, the year of Carosello, made commercials inventing characters that were imposed on Italians' attention. , such as Toto and Tata, Angelino, Pupa and Bob Bob, Merendero.
Later he moved to Rome to coordinate, for the Cinematographic Crown, the project of the Fables of Europe, a series of 40 short films each one of which is a traditional story for children of a European country. In 1976, at the death of Ezio Gagliardo, head and soul of the Crown, Garnier left the company to found the Cineteam with the producer Aldo Raparelli and the painter-animator Manfredo Manfredi.
He was one of the promoters of the Italian animation festival of Abano Terme (1970-1971), later merged into the Lucca Comics & Games salon held in the Tuscan city of the same name.