Quirino Awards Thrive with 265 Works Submitted and New Venue Announced
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The Ibero-American Animation Quirino Awards fourth edition have received 265 works from 17 countries, 21% more than in the previous year. The submitted works will compete to be finalists in the following categories: feature film, series, short film, school short film, commissioned film, animation for video game, sound design and original music, visual development, and animation design. The Tenerife Film Commission is the main sponsor of these awards, that will be held on May 29th at La Laguna, on the island of Tenerife.
Spain leads the list of countries with 28% of the works, followed by Argentina (16%), Brazil (12%), Mexico (11%), Colombia (9.5%), and Portugal (6.5%). Works from Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Dominican Republic, Uruguay, and Venezuela have also been submitted.
The entries include 8 feature films, 35 series, 124 short films, 34 school short films, 53 commissioned films, and 11 video games. Short films have grown by 59% compared to 2020, highlighting thus the importance of this format in the international circulation of works and the promotion of new talents. Altogether, the works represent 45 hours of animation and reflect both the technical and thematic diversity that characterize Ibero-American animation.
The call for entries was open to animated works from the 23 countries of the region released between January 1st and December 31st 2020, except in the case of feature films, series and video game animations, which could have been released between June 1st 2019 and December 31st, 2020.
A selection committee made up of Agnieszka Kowalewska-Skowron, Loïc Portier, Sydney Padua, Paco Rodríguez, and Ylka Tapia will choose six nominees per category to be announced on February 2021. Eventually, an international jury will choose three finalists in each category among those selected.
New venue
The Quirino Awards organization also announced that the city of San Cristóbal de La Laguna, on the island of Tenerife, will play host to the fourth edition of the Awards. Declared a World Heritage Site by Unesco in 1999, La Laguna is one of the island’s references in cultural matters, with several institutions, theaters, museums and a university. It will be precisely the Leal Theater of the town where the Awards ceremony will be held.
In addition to the Awards ceremony, the Quirino Awards will once again bring together animation professionals at the Ibero-American Co-production and Business Forum, to be held on May 27th, 28th and 29th in La Laguna. In 2020, this industry activity brought together representatives of a hundred companies from 19 countries – including production companies, sales agencies, tv channels and distributors – who held more than 800 B2B meetings. Participation in the Forum is open to professionals in the sector from Ibero-America, Portugal, Andorra and Spain, and registrations will be open next February on the Awards’ website.