Stefano Bessoni (born 14 September 1965) is an Italian filmmaker, stop-motion animator and illustrator.

After a detour in zoology and natural sciences, he left the Faculty of Biology and later graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome.

In 1995, he was awarded the "Claudio Pastori" Prize by the Italian FEDIC, for his work as a filmmaker, "for the consistency of his commitment, the peculiarity of his research, the culture and the passion expressed through his work and in the in-depth analysis of the relationships between cinema, painting, history, and popular traditions and beliefs.

The Marvel Factory,), with a preface by Barry J.C. Purves was born out of his long-time experience as a teacher and as a stop-motion animator.

"Enchanted by the imaginary dimension of fairy tales" and "fascinated by anything gruesome and disturbing, ominous or deadly",[1] he has also published many illustrated books inspired by the world of Wunderkammer, old fairy tales and macabre rhymes, among which are Homunculus (2011), Wunderkammer (2011), Alice Underground (2012), Gallows Songs (2013) and Pinocchio (2014).