'Robot Dreams', 'Lulina and the Moon', 'Jasmine & Jambo 2' Get Quirino Awards 2024
The European Film Academy awarded 'Robot Dreams' by the Spanish director Pablo Berger was the big winner in this year's Ibero-American Animation Quirino Awards, which celebrates excellence in animation in Iberia and Latin American countries.
The story of a friendship between a dog and a robot in the 1980s New York (also an Oscar-nominated film) left with three awards in the ceremony: Best Feature Animation, Best Sound Design, and Best Music (by Alfonso de Vilallonga). 'Sultana's Dream' feature animation by Isabel Herguera won the Best Visual Development Award.
25 finalists competed for the prizes (out of the 247 submissions). In the animation series, the second season of 'Jasmine & Jambo' by Silvia Cortés won again (after its 2023 first-season win). The Barcelona-based production company Teidees Audiovisuals, in co-production with Corporació Catalana de Mitjans Audiovisuals, have crafted this preschool audiences story. Two characters have a passion for music, relating it to life and emotions, and explaining musical concepts.
The award for Best Short Film went to Brazil’s 'Lulina and the Moon' by Marcus Vinicius Vasconcelos and Alois Di Leo. Lulina is a little girl who deals with her conflicts using her drawings, which are brought to life by her imagination. This is the second win for Alois Di Leo (he won the Quirino Award for his short film 'Caminho dos Gigantes' in 2018).
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Remaining in the short film category, the Best Animation Design award was given to the Portuguese short film 'Cold Soup' by Marta Monteiro.
The Best School Short Film award went to the drama 'The Leak', a stop-motion work by Colombian-Belgian Paola Cubillos produced by KASK & Conservatorium Hogeschool Gent and Vrije Universiteit Brussels.
In the newly created Best Music Video category, the award went to 'All the Best', a music video directed by Argentine Pablo Roldán for the electropop band Siamés. “In the Stars”, a production by Chile’s Punkrobot Studio directed by Oscar-winner Gabriel Osorio, won the award for Best Commissioned Animation. The short film is part of the anthology “Star Wars: Visions”.
The full 2024 Quirino Awards winners
Jury: José Miguel Ribeiro (Portugal), Marcela Rincón (Colombia), Wesley Louis (United Kingdom), Zane Valeniece (LTV, Latvia) and Emmanuèle Petry (Dandelooo, France).
- Best Feature Film: “Robot Dreams” by Pablo Berger. Arcadia Motion Pictures, Lokiz Films, Noodles Prod., Les films du Worso (Spain, France).
- Best Series: “Jasmine & Jambo – Season 2” by Sílvia Cortés. Teidees Audiovisuals, Corporació Catalana de Mitjans Audiovisuals, with the participation of IB3 (Televisió de les illes Balears), Institut Català de les Empreses Culturals (Spain).
- Best Short Film: “Lulina and the Moon” by Marcus Vinicius Vasconcelos and Alois Di Leo. Estudio Teremim (Brazil).
- Best Animation School Short Film: “The Leak” by Paola Cubillos. KASK & Conservatorium Hogeschool Gent, Vrije Universiteit Brussels (Belgium, Colombia).
- Best Commissioned Animation: “In the Stars” by Gabriel Osorio. Punkrobot Studio, Lucasfilm (Chile, US).
- Best Music Video: “All the Best” by Pablo Roldán. Rudo Company (Argentina).
- Best Video Game Animation: “The Many Pieces of Mr Coo” directed by Nacho Rodríguez. Developed by Gammera Nest (Spain).
- Best Visual Development: “Sultana’s Dream” by Isabel Herguera. Abano Producións, El Gatoverde Producciones, UniKo Estudio Creativo, Sultana Films, Fabian&Fred (Spain, Germany).
- Best Animation Design: “Cold Soup” by Marta Monteiro. Animais AVPL, La Clairière Ouest (Portugal, France).
- Best Sound Design and Original Music: “Robot Dreams” by Pablo Berger. Arcadia Motion Pictures, Lokiz Films, Noodles Production, Les films du Worso (Spain, France).
Quirino Awards Winners 2024
Héctor and Liliana Cristiani—grandson and great-granddaughter of Quirino Cristiani, respectively—received the Honorary Award. Cristiani was the creator of the first animated feature film in history 'El Apóstol'. The 7th edition of the Ibero-American Quirino Awards took place 9-11 May in Laguna, Tenerife (Spain).
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