Nicola Sammarco, 31, director, storyboard artist and comics author. He started his career directly with Disney Company Italy, as a layout artist for comics, he did the layouts for the graphic novel Finding Dory by Pixar.
He worked as a story artist on the "Grinch" (Illumination), for The SPA Studios on "Klaus" and for Aardman Studios on "Lost in Iterland" by Google. As a story artist, he worked on "The Inventor", for Skydance Los Angeles a new unannounced feature film and as writer and director of the teaser for the feature film  "L'Atleta" (in development) by 10D film. He founded Nasse Animation Studio, with which he's producing and directing the animated preschool series "Nicopò", the first 100% ecological TV show in the world. Actually, he's also working on his first comics series "Muran" for the French publisher Glenat Editions and as a story artist on two new feature films “David” produced by Sunrise Productions and an unannounced film produced by Epipheo. 

Founder of Animatà Academy.