Biography
Alessandro Carloni is an Italian film director, writer and animator. Born in 1978 in Bologna, he studied literature at the University of Milan and began working in animation and film in Europe before joining DreamWorks Animation in 2002.
He served as an animation supervisor on the first Kung Fu Panda (2008) and a story artist on Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011). Carloni co-directed Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016) with Jennifer Yuh Nelson. He is director and co-writer of the upcoming The Cat in the Hat (2026).
