Fesival Description: CINANIMA has the approval of the International Film Association – ASIFA - and is officially considered by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences as one of the qualifying festivals for the Oscar nomination for the Best Animation Short Film.
2020 Call for entries
Awards:
• GRAND PRIZE CINANIMA 2020 | Espinho City Award – Awarded to the Best Film in the International competition;
• JURY’S SPECIAL AWARD – Awarded to a Film in the International competition by the International Jury according to their own
criteria.
• AUDIENCE AWARD – Attributed by the audience of the Festival, who elect their favourite film from among those screened in the International Competition, through a vote.
SHORT FILMS
Categories:
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
NATIONAL COMPETITION
Of the 1400 submissions from 72 countries, the Festival's programming team selected 26 hours of films, which were screened by the Selection Jury, constituted by Margarida Madeira, Mário Gajo de Carvalho and Regina Machado.
This year there are three Portuguese films in the International Competition running alongside with the biggest names in the world of animation for the Award CINANIMA 2019. “Uncle Tomás, accounting for the days”, by Regina Pessoa; “Purpleboy”, by Alexandre Siqueira and“ A Mind Sang”, by Vier Nev, suming up 45 films in the International Competition for Short Films.
Four feature films from the 23 submitted were selected for international competition: “Away”, by Gints Zilbalodis (Latvia); “The Tower” by Mats Grorud (Norway); Otto Guerra's “Pirate City” (Brazil) and “Titus and the Birds”, by Gustavo Steinberg, Gabriel Bitar and André Catoto (Brazil).
Concerning the National Competition, the Festival will have in 2019, 10 works competing for the António Gaio Award and 16 competing for the Young Portuguese Director Award.
2018 Cinanima Festival Coverage (12-18 Nov 2018):
About the Festival
CINANIMA– INTERNATIONAL ANIMATED FILM FESTIVAL OF ESPINHO – is organised by NASCENTE – Cooperative Soci ety with Cultural Purposes – and by the CITY HALL OF ESPINHO with the support of the MINISTRY OF CULTURE / ICA I.P. - INSTITUTE OF CINEMA AND AUDIOVISUAL and other public and private entities.