It was Eliseu Demari who created the title FANTASTICOZZI for the documentary. The options originally considered by director Felipe M. Guerra were "Luigi Cozzi, Master of Fantascienza" (Luigi Cozzi, Master of Sci-Fi), "They Call Him Lewis Coates", "Cozzi Spaziale", "Un Sognatore Nello Spazio" (A Dreamer in Space) and even "The Italian George Lucas".
The first feature film produced by Fantaspoa Produções, production company linked to Fantaspoa - International Fantastic Film Festival (Porto Alegre, Brazil).
The idea of the film came when Luigi Cozzi was invited to Fantaspoa as honored guest, in 2010. In addition to a retrospective of his work, the promoters of the festival also shown a short French documentary about the director. However, realizing that this documentary did not cover the entire career of Luigi, Brazilian fan and independent filmmaker Felipe M. Guerra suggested producing a new movie about Cozzi during the festival.
Also responsible for the editing of the film, Felipe M. Guerra took six years to reduce 16 hours of interviews and 20 hours of Q&As with Cozzi, filmed during Fantaspoa in 2010, for the final 70 minutes of this documentary. The first cut had 2h40min.
The premiere of the documentary was on May 21, 2016, during the 13th edition of Fantaspoa, because Luigi Cozzi returned to Brazil to release his new film, Blood on Méliès' Moon (2016) - his first feature film to reach theaters since 1989 -, and could also see the documentary in his honor.
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