TENERIFE, Spain — Galician animation artist Alberto Vázquez has achieved it once more. “Decorado,” its heartbreaking meditation on identification and appearances in a society that values floor, received the prize for greatest function movie on the ninth version of the Ibero-American Animation Quirino Awards, awarded Friday in Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
That is Vázquez’s third Quirino: he beforehand received a brief movie award for the 11-minute “Decorado,” launched in 2018, and once more for “Homeless Dwelling” in 2021. A co-production between Spain’s María and Arnold AIE, Abano Producións, UniKoside and Glow Aspect and Portugal’s Sardinos, and Sardines, the La’ta movie additionally received a function movie animation Goya in February.
Colombia punched above its weight. Bogotá-based Careloko Producciones triumphed within the sequence class for “There’s One thing Behind You,” a suspenseful youngsters’s cartoon written and directed by Julián Gómez Reyes, supported by the Colombian public fund Abrecámara.
Portuguese Marta Reis Andrade received the award for greatest brief movie for “Canine Alone”, a 2D fable about loneliness and household ties produced by BAP – Animation Studio in French co-production with Ikki Movies. The brief movie has already been chosen in quite a few festivals, together with the AFI Fest and the Valladolid Worldwide Movie Pageant.
The loot was unfold throughout 5 nations. Spain leads the pack with three wins, adopted by Colombia, Portugal and Brazil with two every, and Argentina with one, making for a transparent five-to-five break up between Iberia and Latin America. The jury examined 265 functions.
Elsewhere within the listing of winners: the Colombia-Spain copro “Ballad of Fish and Birds” by Anny Uribe and Juan José Arévalo took dwelling brief faculty movie honors; Portuguese artist Ana Marta Mendes received greatest music video for “Paulinha,” animating a observe by musician Raul Manarte below the Os Filmes do Pinguim banner; Brazilian studio Zombie Studio was voted greatest commissioned movie for “18 Months” by Paulo Garcia and Natalia Gouvea; and Spanish firm Valhalla Cats received greatest online game animation for José Ginés Picón López’s “Stars within the Trash.”
The technical classes went to brief movies throughout the board. Finest visible growth was awarded to Brazilian Rosana Urbes (Planta Filmes) for “Safo”. Animation Design was received by the Argentinian-Mexican copro “My Intestine Pal”, directed by José Manuel Lo Bianco and Mariano Andrés Bergara (Can Can Membership, Primo Content material, GUT). Finest Sound Design and Finest Unique Rating went to James A. Castillo’s Spanish “The Quinta’s Ghost” (Illusorium Movies, Martirio Movies), which was on this 12 months’s Oscar shortlist.
The worldwide jury was chaired by Brazilian producer Cesar Cabral – himself winner of the 2022 Quirino for “Bob Cuspe – We Do not Like Gente” – alongside Irishman Moe Honan (Moetion Movies), Philippine Marilyn Montano (PlayLab Animation Studio, TeamApp), American Colombian Martha Sepúlveda (CAKE Leisure) and Croatian Krešimir Zubčić (HRT).
Finest function movie:
“Decorado” by Alberto Vázquez (Spain-Portugal)
Finest sequence:
“There’s something behind you – Season 1” by Julián Gómez Reyes
(Colombia)
Finest brief movie:
“Canine Alone” by Marta Reis Andrade (Portugal-France)
Finest faculty brief movie:
“Ballad of Fish and Birds” by Anny Uribe and Juan José
Arévalo (Colombia-Spain)
Finest music video:
“Paulinha” by Ana Marta Mendes (Portugal)
Finest commissioned movie:
“18 months” by Paulo Garcia and Natalia Gouvea (Brazil)
Finest online game animation:
“Stars within the trash” by José Ginés Picón López (Spain)
Finest visible growth:
“Safo” by Rosana Urbes (Brazil)
Finest Animation Design:
“My instinctive buddy” by José Manuel Lo Bianco and Mariano
Andrés Bergara (Argentina-Mexico)
Finest Sound Design and Unique Music:
“The Ghost of the Quinta” by James A. Castillo
(Spain)