Quirino Awards Recognize Best Of Ibero-American Animation With Virtual Ceremony
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For the third consecutive year, the Quirino Awards becomes the main showcase for Ibero-American animation, bringing together the main protagonists of the sector in a ceremony that will be held in digital format and will be broadcasted on Facebook Live on Saturday, June 27th at 8:00 p.m. from Spain (7:00 p.m. Tenerife / Portugal, 3:00 p.m. Argentina / Chile / Brazil, 1:00 p.m. Mexico / Peru / Ecuador / Colombia).
A total of 22 works from ten countries in the region will compete for the statuettes of these awards created in 2018 to promote Ibero-American animation. The Portuguese animation is the most represented with ten nominations, while Spain presents seven finalists, followed by Argentina (6), Brazil (4), Colombia (2), Bolivia (2) and Chile (1), Mexico (1), Paraguay (1) and Uruguay (1). The finalist works were selected by an international jury among 219 works received in the call.
The Quirino Awards, which have the main sponsorship of the Cabildo de Tenerife through the Tenerife Film Commission, had planned to hold their third edition on April 18th in Tenerife and have had to change their date of celebration and format as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. The island will be present throughout the ceremony with some of its most emblematic landscapes and with the participation of professionals and animation companies that are among the finalists. As a prologue to the ceremony, an animated photocall will take place in which different personalities from the sector will parade virtually on the purple carpet of the Quirino Awards along with the finalist directors.
The four feature films that compete for the Quirino Award are: the Argentine-Spanish co-production “Turu, the Wacky Chicken”, by Víctor Monigote and Eduardo Gondell; the Argentine “The Longleg” by Mercedes Moreira; the Colombian “Reconciliation Stories” by Carlos Santa and Rubén Monroy; and the Spanish “Klaus” by Sergio Pablos.
The finalist series are the Portuguese “Cubs – Crocodiles”, co-produced with France; the Spanish “Momonsters”; the Mexican “Space Chickens in Space”, co-produced with the United Kingdom, Ireland and Australia; and the Brazilian “Tainá and the Amazon’s Guardians”.
In the short film category, the candidates are the Colombian “The Cubicbird” by Jorge Alberto Vega and the Portuguese “Purpleboy” by Alexandre Siqueira, co-production with Belgium and France, and “Uncle Thomas Accounting for the Days” by Regina Pessoa, co-production with Canada and France.
Along with these awards, the best works will be recognized in the categories school short film, commissioned film, animation for video game, visual development, animation design and sound design and original music. The list of finalist works can be found here.
Days before the awards ceremony, the public will have the opportunity to learn in depth about the animation series and feature films finalists in the last two programs of the interview cycle that will be available online on the Facebook Live of the Quirino Awards on Tuesday 23rd (animation series) and Thursday 25th (feature films).