Giorgio "Max" Massimino-Garniér (1924-1985) producer, scriptwriter and cinematographer. His vivid profile is outlined in the following letter, written by the historian and cinema critic Giannalberto Bendazzi. As Bendazzi points out, Garniér played a fundamental role in the former festival in Lucca, it was after him that the body which for years, among other things, organized the comics event which continued that experience. With this retrospective, Lucca Animation wishes to pay tribute, on behalf of the entire city, to one of the men that Italian animation is most indebted to