SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Oct. 16 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Quirino Awards for Ibero-American Animation have opened the registration period for works for its seventh edition, whose awards ceremony will take place on May 11 of next year at the Teatro Leal in the city of San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Tenerife .
Created in 2018, the Quirinos seek to highlight the talent and the Ibero-American animation industry, in addition to promoting professional networks on both sides of the Atlantic and contributing to the construction of an Ibero-American animation market. The Awards activities will take place on May 9, 10 and 11, 2024.
The nominated works will compete in seven main categories: Feature Film, Series, Short Film, School Short Film, Commissioned Work, Video Game Animation and, this year for the first time, Music Video. This category is added starting this edition in recognition of the creators who have allowed the frontiers of animation to expand by interacting with other artistic disciplines. The finalist works in the main categories will also compete in three technical categories: Visual Development, Animation Design and Sound Design and Original Music.
The call is aimed at works with a majority production from one of the 23 Ibero-American countries. In the case of feature films, series and video game animations, the works must have been released between June 1, 2022 and December 31, 2023, while in the rest of the categories only works released during 2023 will be accepted. The works must be registered through the Festhome platform before December 14, 2023 at 11:59 p.m. (Spanish time). The participation bases are available at this link.
From among all the nominated works, a selection committee will choose six nominees per category who will be announced in mid-February 2024. Subsequently, an international jury will choose three finalists per category and these will be the ones who will compete for the awards to be presented at the ceremony. which will be held on May 11 in San Cristóbal de La Laguna.
Portuguese animation was the protagonist in the last edition of the Quirino after winning four of the nine awards, including Best Feature Film (“Nayola” by José Miguel Ribeiro) and Best Short Film (“O Homem do Lixo” by Laura Gonçalves). For its part, the award for Best Series went to the Spanish “Jasmine & Jambo” by Silvia Cortés. The finalist works of the last edition were selected among 223 applications from 18 countries.
In addition to recognizing the best works of Ibero-American animation, between May 9 and 11, the Quirino will host the Co-production and Business Forum, created with the aim of promoting the co-production, development, and circulation of Ibero-American animation works and projects. . With the participation of 148 companies from 26 countries, in the last edition more than 1,200 professional meetings were organized – 70% more than the previous year – between production companies, distributors, sales agencies, TV channels and streaming platforms.
