The Ibero-American Animation Quirino Awards have announced the finalist works in the nine categories of its first edition, that will take place on April 6th and 7th in the island of Tenerife (Spain). The selection has been presented this afternoon at Casa de América, in a press conference in which Mr. Oscar Graefenhain, General Director of ICAA; Mr. Roberto Varela, Director of Cultural and Scientific Relations in AECID; Mr. Carlos Alonso, President of the Cabildo de Tenerife; Mr. Alberto Bernabé, Vicepresident of the Cabildo de Tenerife and Tourism, Internationalization and Overseas Action; Mr. Manuel Cristóbal, Vicepresident of DIBOOS; and Mr. Jose Luis Farias, Quirino Awards’ Coordinator, have participated. To this presentation also attended representatives of the Ibermedia Program and the cultural attachés from the embassies of Mexico, Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay.
A total of twenty four productions, coming from nine Ibero-American countries will compete for the statuettes of this first edition. Productions from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Spain and Uruguay will aim for the Quirino Awards in the nine categories.
The Spanish animation is the most represented with 12 nominations, whereas Colombia and Mexico have five finalists each. The Spanish feature film “Tad, the Lost Explorer and the Secret of King Midas” is the work with more nominations (3), followed closely by the short films “Way of Giants” (Brazil) and “Cerulia” (Mexico) and the feature film “El libro de Lila” (Colombia), with two nominations each.
The selection has been made by an international jury composed by the cinematography historian Giannalberto Bendazzi, the producer and distributor Eleanor Coleman, the producer and consultant Joan Lofts and the animators David Feiss and Raúl García. The biographies of each member can be consulted here.
The jury have decided to select four works in the feature film and series categories due to the high quality of the presented works. The four films that will aim to the Quirino Award for the Best Feature Film are the Mexican “Ana and Bruno”, the Colombian-Uruguayan “El libro de Lila” and the Spanish titles “Deep” and “Tad, the Lost Explorer and the Secret of King Midas”.
For its part, the finalist series are the Chilean “Paper Port” (in coproduction with Brazil, Colombia and Argentina), the Argentinian-French “The Tiniest Man in the World”, the Spanish “Pocoyo” (4th season) and the coproduction between Colombia and Spain: “Old Folk’s Tales” (3rd season). In the short film category, the three works that aim to the Quirino Award are “Afterwork” (Ecuador, Spain, Peru), “Cerulia” (Mexico) and “Decorado” (Spain, France).
In addition, other 18 works have been selected as finalists in the six remaining categories: school short films, innovative work, commissioned film, visual development, animation design and sound design and original music. The list with all the finalist can be seen here.
A total of 273 work from 14 countries were presented to the call for entries.
The Call for the Coproduction Forum and the Congress is still open
The Ibero-American Animation Quirino Awards have also announced news regarding the Coproduction Forum and the Animation Congress, the two professional activities that will take place in Tenerife on April 6th and 7th. The Coproduction Forum, that maintains its call opened until March 9th, will congregate professionals from the region in B2B meetings, round tables and presentations of the state of the industry in different territories. Among the confirmed attendees we can find public and private TV channels from Ibero-America and Europe.
Likewise, inside the Quirino Awards’ mission of structuring and boosting the Ibero-American animation industry, organizing a round table in the framework of the first edition of the awards in the city of Santa Cruz de Tenerife it’s been arranged with the Ibermedia Programme. The main objective of this encounter is to analyze the special specificities of the animation to ease the access for animation projects to this Ibero-American program that encourages the cinematography coproduction in the region.
In order to make it happen, the main animation associations and clusters from Spain, Portugal and Latin-America countries will attend and, together with the representatives of the Executive and Technic Secretary of Ibermedia, will shape concrete proposals that will be made available for the intergovernmental committee of the Conference of Cinematographic Authorities of Ibero-America (CACI) during the meeting that the will take place at the 21th Málaga Festival (April 13th – 22nd). Among the confirmed participants are the professional associations from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, Portugal and Spain.
The International Congress will present eleven papers from Brazil, Denmark, Ecuador, Mexico, Portugal and Spain. The selection, made between a total of 37 proposals received, has been made by a committee composed by Sara Álvarez (UPV, Spain); Tania de León (FAD/UNAM, Mexico); Marcelo Dematei (ICSE/UNTDF, Argentina); Alfonso Ruiz (ULL, Spain); Paula Tavares (IPCA, Portugal) and Samuel Viñolo (U-TAD, Spain). The event, that seeks to stir up an exchange between the academy and the profession, will count with the special participation of the animation historian, professor and writer Giannalbert Bendazzi.
Ibero-American Animation Quirino Awards
The awards are named in tribute of the creator of the first feature length animation film in history, the Italian-Argentinean Quirino Cristiani, who in 1917 directed “El Apóstol”; this Argentinean production, shot in 35mm, used 58,000 drawings done by hand along with a number of models representing public buildings and streets in Buenos Aires city.
The main sponsor of the Quirino Awards is the Tourism department of Tenerife, reflecting the determined commitment that is being made for the animation for years on the island, not only with these awards but with the presence in the main events and markets, attracting new companies, as well as with the support to the flourishing local sector.
It also has the sponsorship of Iberia Express, the collaboration of ICAA, Ibermedia Programme, AECID, Santa Cruz de Tenerife City Hall, Auditorium of Tenerife, University of La Laguna, RTVE, and the support of DIBOOS, SAVE, Pixelatl, 3D Wire, TLP Tenerife, Annecy Festival and Polytechnique University of Valencia, as well as the associations: APA - Asociación de Productoras de Animación de Córdoba Argentina; ANIMAR CLUSTER – Argentinian Cluster of Animation & VFX; ABCA - Associação Brasileira de Cinema de Animação; Animachi Chile; GEMA Colombia - Grupo de Empresarios de Animación; Gremio de Animadores de Ecuador; ACDMX - Asociación de Creativos Digitales de México; y Casa da Animáçao of Portugal.
More Information
All the finalists: https://premiosquirino.org/en/finalists/
Pictures of the finalists: Link
Video of the finalists: https://youtu.be/Ej4BFCoNkRI
Jury’s biographies: https://premiosquirino.org/en/jury/
Forum regulations: https://premiosquirino.org/foro
Congress’ selection: https://premiosquirino.org/comunicaciones
Contact: prensa@premiosquirino.org
Website: https://premiosquirino.org