Leonardo Pirondi is a Brazilian film director from São Paulo. Pirondi's work explores the intersection between fiction and non-fiction filmmaking using non-conventional structures of documentary, experimental, and narrative modes.^[1] In his films he explores contemporary sociopolitical issues and collective anxieties as a lens to look into history, imagination, myth, and technology.^[2][3]

He studied filmmaking at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) in a 16 mm and analog focussed film program with an avant-garde/experimental film tradition.^[4]

His films have been presented at the International Film Festival Rotterdam,^[5][6] New York Film Festival (Currents),^[7][8] Vienna International Film Festival,^[9] BFI London Film Festival,^[10] Slamdance,^[11] Melbourne International Film Festival,^[12] Edinburgh International Film Festival, Centre de Cultura Contemporànea de Barcelona,^[13] and REDCAT.^[14] Some of his films exist in the UCLA Film and Television Archive, The Film-Makers' Cooperative in New York,^[15] and were deposited at the Cinematheque of the Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro^[16] after the 4^th edition of the 1666 Festival Internacional de Cinema 16mm.^[17] He has had solo and retrospective showings of his films at the Spectacle Theater in New York City,^[18][19] and Galeria Mola in Portugal.^[20][21] He took part in the 2023 Sundance Ignite X Adobe Fellowship.^[22]

His film, Potenciais à Deriva [Adrift Potentials],^[23] was selected for the Tiger Short Competition at the 53^rd International Film Festival Rotterdam.^[24]