Quirino Cristiani, l'uomo che anticipò Walt Disney

Wednesday, 11 February 2026, from 21.00 to 23.30, Auditorium of Palazzo Gromo Losa

The event Quirino Cristiani, the man who anticipated Walt Disney is part of a series of six cultural evenings within the programme of the Film and Cinema Festival.

A documentary about Quirino Cristiani will be screened.

Guests: Eric Rittatore, former close collaborator of Giannalberto Bendazzi, president of the Cartùn Cultural Association of Genoa, and, via video link from Argentina, Gino Ponzini and Miguel Manforte, scholars of Cristiani (creator of the first animated film in history: El Apòstol, 1917) and Federico Valle, his producer. Both are Italian emigrants to Argentina.

For more information: https://www.lamagiadellaluce.it/.