Organizers of the Ibero-American Animation Quirino Awards on Friday presented 25 finalists as part of the Malaga Film Festival’s Mafiz-Spanish Screenings Content Animation Hub section.
The 25 works from seven countries will compete in 10 categories at the seventh edition of the Ibero-American Animation Quirino Awards, taking place on May 11 in Tenerife.
Spain tops the list of countries with the most entries, 16, followed by Brazil with seven and Chile with three. Argentina, Mexico and Portugal are present with two nominations each, while Colombia has one nomination.
Leading with the most nominations are Spain’s “Robot Dreams,” by Pablo Berger, which is also competing for the best animated feature film Oscar, and the Brazilian short “Lulina e a Lua,” by Marcus Vinicius Vasconcelos and Alois Di Leo, with three each.
Best Feature Film
“Hanna and the Monsters”
Spanish animation dominates the Best Feature Film category with three out of four nominations, including “Hanna and the Monsters,...
The 25 works from seven countries will compete in 10 categories at the seventh edition of the Ibero-American Animation Quirino Awards, taking place on May 11 in Tenerife.
Spain tops the list of countries with the most entries, 16, followed by Brazil with seven and Chile with three. Argentina, Mexico and Portugal are present with two nominations each, while Colombia has one nomination.
Leading with the most nominations are Spain’s “Robot Dreams,” by Pablo Berger, which is also competing for the best animated feature film Oscar, and the Brazilian short “Lulina e a Lua,” by Marcus Vinicius Vasconcelos and Alois Di Leo, with three each.
Best Feature Film
“Hanna and the Monsters”
Spanish animation dominates the Best Feature Film category with three out of four nominations, including “Hanna and the Monsters,...
- 3/8/2024
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
On the eve of Annecy’s MIFA market, Argentina’s National Film and Audiovisual Arts Institute (Incaa) has announced that it will launch three regional animation schools as it proclaims animation a strategic growth sector.
Forming part of Incaa’s Enerc federal film school system, currently headquartered in Buenos Aires, the new animation training facilities will be based in Mar del Plata, already home to Latin America’s only “A” grade film festival, as well as Santa Fe’s Rosario and Patagonia’s Comodoro Rivadavia. The film school’s will focus on 3D animation and new technologies.
In a first move, Argentina’s Incaa is setting up a new Animation and New Technologies division, headed by Silvina Cornillón, the driving force behind the explosive growth of Ventana Sur’s Animation! from its launch in 2016. In the space of five editions, organized in collaboration with Annecy’s MIFA market. Animation! has...
Forming part of Incaa’s Enerc federal film school system, currently headquartered in Buenos Aires, the new animation training facilities will be based in Mar del Plata, already home to Latin America’s only “A” grade film festival, as well as Santa Fe’s Rosario and Patagonia’s Comodoro Rivadavia. The film school’s will focus on 3D animation and new technologies.
In a first move, Argentina’s Incaa is setting up a new Animation and New Technologies division, headed by Silvina Cornillón, the driving force behind the explosive growth of Ventana Sur’s Animation! from its launch in 2016. In the space of five editions, organized in collaboration with Annecy’s MIFA market. Animation! has...
- 6/14/2021
- by John Hopewell and Emilio Mayorga
- Variety Film + TV
Curated in coordination with the Annecy International Animation Festival and its MIFA market, Animation! at Ventana Sur will feature five productions for its 2020 Works in Progress sidebar, including its first-ever non-Latin American production.
Adult animation is booming, and one figure at the forefront of the movement is Spain’s Alberto Vazquez, the mastermind behind festival hits such as “Birdboy: The Forgotten Children” and one of this year’s darkest animated shorts “Homeless Home,” selected as one of Variety’s ten to watch at June’s Annecy festival.
The medium isn’t leaving kids behind, however, and Gullane’s “Noah’s Ark – A Musical Adventure,” one of the most buzzed animated features to come out of Latin America in recent years which boasts Brazil’s largest-ever budget for an animated film, and the first Brazilian animated feature with an Indian co-producer in Symbiosys Technologies.
This year’s WIPs will be available...
Adult animation is booming, and one figure at the forefront of the movement is Spain’s Alberto Vazquez, the mastermind behind festival hits such as “Birdboy: The Forgotten Children” and one of this year’s darkest animated shorts “Homeless Home,” selected as one of Variety’s ten to watch at June’s Annecy festival.
The medium isn’t leaving kids behind, however, and Gullane’s “Noah’s Ark – A Musical Adventure,” one of the most buzzed animated features to come out of Latin America in recent years which boasts Brazil’s largest-ever budget for an animated film, and the first Brazilian animated feature with an Indian co-producer in Symbiosys Technologies.
This year’s WIPs will be available...
- 11/2/2020
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Oscar-nominated Argentine actress Norma Aleandro will add her voice to “The Paradise” (El Paraiso), a noirish 2.5D animated feature directed by Federico Moreno Breser. Produced by Fernando Sirianni’s Nomad VFX, the project will take part in the Animation! Pitching Sessions in Ventana Sur this week.
Set in 1920s Rosario – a city known as the “Argentine Chicago” – “The Paradise” is the story of Magdalena and Anna Scilko, immigrant sisters who arrive from Poland with hopes for a new future. But the duo unwittingly fall into the hands of the Warsaw Clan, a ruthless crime syndicate that controls the largest prostitution ring in the city, setting off a story of love, revenge and betrayal, told in an arresting hybrid of 2D and 3D animation styles.
As a storyteller, Breser said he was inspired by his grandfather, who used to regale the director with colorful tales about the Rosario of his youth...
Set in 1920s Rosario – a city known as the “Argentine Chicago” – “The Paradise” is the story of Magdalena and Anna Scilko, immigrant sisters who arrive from Poland with hopes for a new future. But the duo unwittingly fall into the hands of the Warsaw Clan, a ruthless crime syndicate that controls the largest prostitution ring in the city, setting off a story of love, revenge and betrayal, told in an arresting hybrid of 2D and 3D animation styles.
As a storyteller, Breser said he was inspired by his grandfather, who used to regale the director with colorful tales about the Rosario of his youth...
- 12/11/2018
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
New Directors, New Films Festival
NEW YORK -- XXY, an Argentinean film by debuting director Lucia Puenzo, rises to the challenge of its difficult sexual subject matter. The story of a young hermaphrodite who's not sure if she's emotionally a boy or a girl manages to be both raw-edged and moving. The centerpiece of "XXY" is a feral performance by Ines Efron as the confused youth. But supporting characters are all thoroughly nuanced, and this injects a powerful humanism. The result is a tough, engaging, extremely touching work of cinema.
"XXY" has already performed well at festivals, picking up the Critics' Week Grand Prize at Cannes and a well-deserved New Directors Award at Edinburgh. Critical praise should boost chances in upscale art-house cinemas. Film Movement is handling the stateside release May 2.
Alex (Efron), 15, looks like a girl, but was born with both male and female genitalia. Her parents have brought her up as a girl, and her mother has mooted an operation to remove the offending muscle. Alex is starting to believe that she's actually a boy, and her father (Ricardo Darin) is coming around to that conclusion, too. When some family friends arrive at the house, 16-year-old Alvaro (Martin Piroyanski), a teenager with sexual anxieties of his own, forces the issue of Alex's sexual identity.
The creative decision to have Efron play Alex as wild and angry rather than anxious and introspective gives the film dynamism. Alex confronts her problems with her fists, and isn't afraid to externalize her emotions. She doesn't say very much, so her problems and internal conflicts are demonstrated in a very cinematic manner. Rarely has a teenager played a challenging role with such panache and credibility. Piroyanski also performs well as the nerdy, nervous, but emotionally honest foil to Alex's emotions.
Director Puenzo visualizes the fact that Alex is leaning towards male rather than female by showing her taking the masculine role in a sex scene with Alvaro. A nasty attempted rape scene illustrates Alex's vulnerability underneath her tough exterior. But the quiet compassion of friends and family ensures that the film is uplifting rather than depressing.
XXY
Film Movement
A Wanda Vision, Pyramide Prods., and Historias Cinematogrficas production
Sales: Pyramide International
Credits:
Director: Lucia Puenzo
Writer: Lucia Puenzo
Based on a story by: Sergio Bizzo
Producers: Luis Puenzo, Jose Maria Morales
Executive producers: Fernando Sirianni and Miguel Morales
Director of photography: Natashah Braier
Production designer: Roberto Samuelle
Music: Daniel Tarrab
Editors: Alex Zito, Hugo Primero
Cast:
Kraken: Ricardo Darin
Suli: Valeria Bertuccelli
Ramiro: German Palacios
Erika: Carolina Peleritti
Alvaro: Martin Piroyansky
Alex: Ines Efron
Running time -- 91 minutes
No MPAA rating...
NEW YORK -- XXY, an Argentinean film by debuting director Lucia Puenzo, rises to the challenge of its difficult sexual subject matter. The story of a young hermaphrodite who's not sure if she's emotionally a boy or a girl manages to be both raw-edged and moving. The centerpiece of "XXY" is a feral performance by Ines Efron as the confused youth. But supporting characters are all thoroughly nuanced, and this injects a powerful humanism. The result is a tough, engaging, extremely touching work of cinema.
"XXY" has already performed well at festivals, picking up the Critics' Week Grand Prize at Cannes and a well-deserved New Directors Award at Edinburgh. Critical praise should boost chances in upscale art-house cinemas. Film Movement is handling the stateside release May 2.
Alex (Efron), 15, looks like a girl, but was born with both male and female genitalia. Her parents have brought her up as a girl, and her mother has mooted an operation to remove the offending muscle. Alex is starting to believe that she's actually a boy, and her father (Ricardo Darin) is coming around to that conclusion, too. When some family friends arrive at the house, 16-year-old Alvaro (Martin Piroyanski), a teenager with sexual anxieties of his own, forces the issue of Alex's sexual identity.
The creative decision to have Efron play Alex as wild and angry rather than anxious and introspective gives the film dynamism. Alex confronts her problems with her fists, and isn't afraid to externalize her emotions. She doesn't say very much, so her problems and internal conflicts are demonstrated in a very cinematic manner. Rarely has a teenager played a challenging role with such panache and credibility. Piroyanski also performs well as the nerdy, nervous, but emotionally honest foil to Alex's emotions.
Director Puenzo visualizes the fact that Alex is leaning towards male rather than female by showing her taking the masculine role in a sex scene with Alvaro. A nasty attempted rape scene illustrates Alex's vulnerability underneath her tough exterior. But the quiet compassion of friends and family ensures that the film is uplifting rather than depressing.
XXY
Film Movement
A Wanda Vision, Pyramide Prods., and Historias Cinematogrficas production
Sales: Pyramide International
Credits:
Director: Lucia Puenzo
Writer: Lucia Puenzo
Based on a story by: Sergio Bizzo
Producers: Luis Puenzo, Jose Maria Morales
Executive producers: Fernando Sirianni and Miguel Morales
Director of photography: Natashah Braier
Production designer: Roberto Samuelle
Music: Daniel Tarrab
Editors: Alex Zito, Hugo Primero
Cast:
Kraken: Ricardo Darin
Suli: Valeria Bertuccelli
Ramiro: German Palacios
Erika: Carolina Peleritti
Alvaro: Martin Piroyansky
Alex: Ines Efron
Running time -- 91 minutes
No MPAA rating...
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