Synopsis:

City of Lost Children meets Fellini's La Strada in this Venetian steampunk adventure about a bookish Italian historian named Leo Ghianti whose obsessive quest to find the last survivors of a forgotten genocide leads him into a frightening confrontation with a sinister circus.

"Island of the Gondoliers" is a 20-minute short fantasy film written, directed, and produced by San Francisco-based filmmaker and animator Guido Muzzarelli. In this film the audience is introduced to a special place not found on any world maps; it is a glimpse into a moment of time when lost islands and forgotten cultures struggled to endure against the encroaching oppression of modern civilizations and the crushing weight of indifferent history books. This special place is the island of Floracha.

Floracha is still out there, for all of us. The Island of the Gondoliers awaits, just beyond the horizon…