Alberto Vázquez, the award-winning director of Unicorn Wars and Birdboy: The Forgotten Kids, and Matilde Rodríguez, curator of the Worldwide Exhibition of Up to date Illustration in Santiago de Compostela, will launch the Imaxinaria Worldwide Animation Competition in Galicia within the northwest of Spain on Could 10.
Talking with Cartoon Brew, Vázquez defined that the aim in launching the occasion is, “To point out the general public the inventive and expressive potentialities of animation and convey this glorious medium nearer to them. We would like individuals to see that animation is cinema by exhibiting them works that they will’t discover in theaters or on platforms.”
To that finish, organizers have put collectively a various program that features a brief movie competitors of fifty titles from around the globe. The movies are divided into seven blocks of shorts that run about 70 minutes every. Winners from throughout the competitors will cut up €4,000 in money prizes.
The jury for this yr’s competitors features a trio of award-winning filmmakers in Isabel Herguera (La gallina ciega), Khris Cembe (Soy una tumba), and Nuno Beato (My Grandfather’s Demons). Oscar-winning filmmaker Michaël Dudok de Wit (Father and Daughter, The Pink Turtle) is being honored as the primary Imaxinaria “Padrino del Competition” and can current a masterclass together with screenings of a few of his work.
Moreover, Imaxinaria will host 5 screenings – one per day – of independently produced animated options, a number of masterclasses and workshops, and venture pitching classes.
Options screening at Imaxinaria embrace:
- The Adventures of Prince Achmed, Lotte Reiniger, Carl Koch (1926)
- Unicorn Wars, Alberto Vázquez (2022)
- My Grandfather’s Demons, Nuno Beato (2022)
- The Pink Turtle, Michaël Dudok de Wit (2016)
- The Boy and the World, Ale Abreu (2013)
There will even be a Focus sidebar supposed to introduce native audiences to animated movies from different nations. This yr’s focus will have a good time a century of Portuguese animation by internet hosting non-competition screenings of a number of standout Portuguese titles from the previous a number of years:
- Água Mole, Alexandra Ramires (Xá), Laura Gonçalves
- Agouro, David Doutel, Vasco Sá
- Purpleboy, Alexandre Siquiera
- Tío Tomás, A Contabilidade Dos Días, Regina Pessoa
- Nestor, João Gonzalez
- Elo, Alexandra Ramires (Xá)
- O Casaco Rosa, Mónica Santos
- My Grandfather’s Demons, Nuno Beato
Imaxinaria will happen within the Galician metropolis of A Coruña on the northern coast of Spain. The explanations, in line with Vázquez, are a number of:
A Coruña is a metropolis with an extended custom in animation. Many animators reside within the space since two movies have been produced right here lately, Unicorn Wars and My Grandfather’s Demons. We even have a public college the place animation and video video games are studied in addition to an animation specialization on the College of Picture and Sound. Additionally, I’m from Coruña and it’s an ideal pleasure to do one thing that may go away a mark on the town.
The pageant will probably be held on the headquarters of Afundación Abanca, an area non-profit group that promotes instructional social, and cultural actions to enhance Galician society. Afundación runs a program titled “Cultura x Alimentos,” or “Tradition and Meals” in English. Imaxinaria will take part on this system, and supply free accreditation to this primary version in change for donations of non-perishable meals objects that will probably be directed to native meals banks.
Launching a pageant is not any simple feat, however Vázquez and the Imaxinaria group are excited by the work they’ve carried out to date and intensely optimistic for this yr’s inaugural version.
I hope there will probably be a full home. Animation pursuits lots of people and contemplating the scholars, the faculties, the standard of content material, and all of the promotion that we’re doing, we’re satisfied that will probably be successful. The concept is to convey the trade to Imaxinaria and make the pageant a key occasion in Spain.
The pageant will run Could 10-14, and full program particulars may be discovered right here. For now, they’re solely accessible in Spanish and Galician.
