One man, five years, zero budget — Brazil's secret Fantasia finally surfaces.
Sinfonia Amazônica, or Amazon Symphony, was Brazil's first animated feature-length film, produced entirely by Anélio Lattini Filho over five years and finished in 1951. Like Disney's Fantasia, it tells several folk stories over orchestral music.
Production
One animator did literally everything — absolutely unhinged commitment.
Direction
Lattini's singular vision: Fantasia meets Brazilian folklore.
Director
Anelio Latini
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lattini hand-painted roughly 45,000 cels using borrowed equipment and his own savings.
The film predates any Brazilian animation studio by decades, making it both pioneering and tragically isolated.
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