The Quirino Awards Co-Production Forum will gather animation from twenty countries
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The second edition of the Ibero-American Animation Quirino Awards will bring together the animation industry of twenty territories in the Co-Production Forum, which will take place on April 5th and 6th in the island of Tenerife in parallel to the awards ceremony.
The activity, which had its first version in 2018 within the framework of the Quirino Awards, will propose a series of B2B meetings aimed at producers, distributors and television channels from both the Ibero-American region and the rest of Europe. During the two days of the Forum, there will be around 500 co-production and business meetings that will seek to build bridges between the animation industries of the Ibero-American region, as well as with the rest of Europe.
Among the confirmed attendees are different channels, distributors, production companies and market players, including Gloob, Discovery Kids, Cartoon Network, NatGeoKids, RTP, RTVE, SVT Swedish Television, CLAN International, PGS, Sola Media, GFM Films, Indie Sales, PlayKids, Cake Entertainment, Mattel, Alterego, Imira Entertainment, El Reino Infantil, Dandelooo, Maga Animation, Autour de Minuit, Xilam Animation, Barley Films, Anima and Ikki Films, among others.
Likewise, the participation of different professional associations of Ibero-American territories is confirmed, including DIBOOS España, Casa da Animaçao Portugal, GEMA Colombia, Gremio de Animadores of Ecuador, Animar Cluster – Cluster Argentino de Animación & VFX, PIXELATL and ACDMX Mexico, Peru Animation, APA – Asociación Productoras de Animación Córdoba (Argentina), ABCA – Associação Brasileira de Cinema de Animação and the Canary association SAVE, among others.
Round tables, lectures and conferences aimed at the industry and training will be developed parallely. The program includes a master class taught by Deanna Marsigliese, character art director at Pixar; talks about possible models of alliances and co-productions in Ibero-America; and round tables about women in animation, training centers and professional associations in the region. Also, the Quirino white paper of Ibero-American Animation will be presented and a meeting will be organized with the Tenerife production and services companies, a sector in continuous growth that counts with the recently launched brand “Tenerife Isla Cartoon”, with which the Cabildo and the Tenerife Film Commission seeks to promote the island as a place for the production of animated films.
This edition of the forum has, as a novelty, the participation and sponsorship of ICEX, Spain Export and Investment and Animation from Spain.
In the 2018 agenda, in addition to the 350 business meetings, the Ibermedia round table, in which the professional associations discussed and promoted the new fund for the Ibero-American animation program that has been launched this year, stood out.
Ibero-American Animation Quirino Awards
On Saturday, April 6th, the Ibero-American Animation Quirino Awards will be given in a ceremony that will take place at the Santa Cruz de Tenerife Auditorium. Twenty-five works from seven countries of the region will compete for the statuettes of this second edition. Productions from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Spain and Portugal will compete for the Quirino Awards in the nine categories of a selection that reflects the international projection of Ibero-American animation and that has a broad representation of works aimed at young and adult audiences. To know the finalist works click here.
Likewise, the Quirino International Congress of Ibero-American Animation will take place simultaneously. This space is proposed as a meeting place to build debate and reflection around the animation in different formats and platforms and its relationship with the world of Education, Art and Communication.
The awards are named in honour of the creator of the first animated feature film, the Italian-Argentinian Quirino Cristiani, who in 2917 directed “El Apóstol”; an Argentinian production where 58.000 handmade drawings in 35 mm were used besides several miniatures that represented public buildings and the streets of the city of Buenos Aires.
The Quirino Awards have Cabildo de Tenerife as its main sponsor through the Tenerife Film Commission, reflecting the determined commitment that is being made for the animation for years on the island. This commitment is also materialized in concrete actions to support the booming local industry, assistance to the main international markets and the promotion of the brand “Tenerife Isla Cartoon”, specific for this sector
The initiative also count on the sponsorship of ICEX Spain Export and Investment, Town Hall of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Iberia Express, HP, Tangram Solutions, Proexca and Tenerife Espacio de las Artes (TEA); the collaboration of ICAA, AECID, Ibermedia Program, Fundación Cultural Hispano Brasileña, Brazil Embassy, Auditorium of Tenerife, University of La Laguna and RTVE; and the support of DIBOOS, SAVE, Pixelatl, 3D Wire, Ventana Sur Animation!, La Liga de la Animación Iberoamericana, Tenerife Moda, Annecy Festival and Polytechnique University of Valencia, as well as the associations: APA – Asociación de Productoras de Animación of 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 of Ecuador; ACDMX – Asociación de Creativos Digitales of Mexico; Peru Animación and Casa da Animaçao of Portugal.