* The first edition of the event brings together in Tenerife more than one hundred fifty professionals from the Ibero-American animation.
* The International Congress proposes connecting professionals and Universities to think about the contemporary animation.
* The award ceremony will give nine awards to the best of the Ibero-American production of the last two years.
More than a hundred fifty professionals of the Ibero-American animation will gather at the Quirino Awards, that will take place in Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Spain) on April 6th and 7th and seek to appraise and set up bonds between the animation production among Latin America, Spain and Portugal.
In addition to the award ceremony, that will be carried out on April 7th and will give nine awards to the best of the animation of the region (the finalist works can be checked here); the event will be the headquarters of the first Ibero-American Coproduction Forum, space oriented exclusively to stablish networks between professionals from both sides of the Atlantic. Several networking activities are posed there, such as presentation of the animation industry’s state in different countries and regions, coproduction B2B meetings and various encounter spaces with the objective of encouraging the coproduction and flow of works at the Ibero-American level. In the Forum, representatives of television channels, pay TV channels, VoD platforms, distributors, exhibitors, sales agents and international journalists -from the region, the United States and Europe- will have the opportunity to learn about the new projects being developed in the region.
The program, which will be available in the next few days on the website of the Quirino Awards, includes industry exhibitions of the different countries, with the aim of bringing together the different production scenarios that facilitate bilateral dialogues. The presentation of the sector is expected by professional associations of Argentina (Animar Cluster, APA), Brazil (ABCA), Chile (Animachi), Colombia (GEMA), Ecuador (Guild of Animators), Mexico (ACDMX), Peru (Peru Animation), Portugal (Casa da Animaçao) and Spain (Diboos).
Likewise, the organization has organized a round table with the different associations and the Ibermedia Program, with the objective of analyzing the need of the Ibero-American animation sector and the possibilities to be implemented from the audiovisual coproduction incentive entity in the Ibero-American area.
Parallelly to the Forum the International Ibero-American Animation Congress will take place, event that seeks generating a space for the academic and professional argument about the animation through the presentation of eleven papers.
The Congress’ selection is integrated by works from Brazil, Denmark, Ecuador, Mexico, Portugal and Spain. The titles that constitute the program are: “68 voces 68 corazones” (Hola Combo, Mexico); “A Presença do Desenho no Cinema de Animação Ibero-Americano do Século XX” (Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal); “Argentina & Barcelona: Rodolfo Pastor” (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain); “Cleo va a la escuela. Un proyecto didáctico de transformación de una serie de animación televisiva en material didáctico” (Universidad de La Laguna – ULL, Spain); “Elementos posmodernistas en la filmografía de Juanba Berasategi” (Universidad del País Vasco – UPV/EHU, Spain); “Icamiabas, a representação de lendas indígenas e a mulher na animação televisiva brasileira” (Universidade Anhembi Morumbi, Brazil).
“La cosmovisión de la animación en la Amazonia: reconstruyendo nuestra historia fotograma a fotograma” (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia/ The Animation Workshop, VIA University College, Denmark); “Las películas menores de la edad de oro de la animación española. Animadores en el diseño de proyectores de juguete” (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain); “Proyecto MOMO” (El Caleidoscopio Proyectos de Ciencia y Cultura, Spain); “Teoria dos Cineastas: Regina Pessoa e a trilogia da infancia” (Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Brazil); “Un análisis de la historia de la enseñanza de la animación digital en Quito – Ecuador: El rol de animadores empíricos dentro de la Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ” (Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador) complete the list.
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.
In addition, the initiative has the sponsorship of the City of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Tenerife Espacio de las Artes (TEA) and Iberia Express; the collaboration of ICAA, Ibermedia Program, AECID, Tenerife Auditorium, Universidad de la Laguna and RTVE; and the support of DIBOOS, SAVE, Pixelatl, 3D Wire, TLP Tenerife, Annecy Festival, Barreira Arte + Diseño and Universitat Politécnica de Valencia, as well as the support of the associations: APA – Association of Animation Production Companies of Córdoba Argentina; ANIMAR CLUSTER – Argentinian Animation Cluster & VFX; ABCA – Associação Brasileira de Cinema de Animação; Animachi Chile; GEMA Colombia – Group of Animation Entrepreneurs; Guild of Animators of Ecuador; ACDMX – Association of Digital Creatives of Mexico; and Casa da Animaçao of Portugal.
More information
Forum program: https://premiosquirino.org/en/forum/
Congress selection: https://premiosquirino.org/en/papers/
The finalists: https://premiosquirino.org/en/finalists/