The Quirino Awards, the celebrated trans-Atlantic rite spotting excellence in Ibero-American animation, has formally unveiled its finalists for this 12 months’s eighth version.
With 26 nominated works throughout ten classes, this 12 months’s pageant highlights the ingenious power of the Ibero-The usa’s animation trade. Spain, Brazil and Portugal have emerged because the frontrunners in nominations, atmosphere the level for a Might tenth awards rite within the Spanish Canary Island co-capital of Tenerife.
Spain continues to dominate the contest, securing or sharing all nominations in the most productive characteristic movie and absolute best college brief movie classes. In the meantime, Chile, Portugal and Argentina every boast two nominations in the most productive sequence, absolute best brief movie, and absolute best track video classes. Brazil leads within the technical classes, with 5 nominations throughout visible building, animation design, sound design and authentic track.
This 12 months’s characteristic class contains “Buffalo Youngsters” – a high-grossing youngsters and circle of relatives characteristic set within the Wild West; “They Shot the Piano Participant” – an animated mystery unraveling the disappearance of Brazilian pianist Tenorio Jr. right through Argentina’s army dictatorship; and “Black Butterflies” – an animated documentary that specialize in pressured migration because of local weather exchange and a contemporary Goya Award winner.
In style on Selection
This 12 months’s jury includes a prominent panel of mavens, together with Ben Kalina, manufacturer at Titmouse Studio; Carolina López Caballero, researcher and programmer; Helena Nylander, head of youngsters’s content material at SVT; Daniel Bruson, director, screenwriter, and animator; and Leyla Formoso, CEO of Top Leisure Staff.
Past the awards, the Quirino Awards proceed to foster trade building. The Ibero-American Animation Area Futures Lab, a newly introduced initiative in collaboration with the Ortega Marañón Basis, goals to power the way forward for animation within the area. Moreover, the Co-Manufacturing and Trade Discussion board will host a distinct roundtable, Ladies in Ibero-American Animation, that includes a refreshed structure to improve skilled building.
Established in 2018, the Quirino Awards show off animation from 23 Ibero-American international locations. The development is essentially backed by way of the Tenerife Council thru Tenerife Tourism, which emphasizes its dedication to selling animation as a cultural and financial pressure within the area. The 2025 version gained 263 submissions, from which the finalists had been sparsely decided on.
2025 QUIRINO AWARDS FINALISTS
Function Movie
“Buffalo Youngsters,” Pedro Solís, Juan Jesús García Galocha (Spain)
“They Shot the Piano Participant,” Javier Mariscal, Fernando Trueba (Spain, France, Netherlands, Portugal, Peru)
“Black Butterflies,” David Baute, (Spain)
Perfect Sequence
“Jasmine & Jambo” – Season 3, Sílvia Cortés (Teidees Audiovisuals, Spain)
“Jorel’s Brother” – Season 5, Juliano Enrico (Copa Studio, Warner Bros. Discovery, Brazil)
“Firsts” – Season 1, Bambú Orellana, Paloma Mora (Typpo Ingenious Lab, TV ON Producciones, Admirable Motion pictures, Chile, Spain)
“Wow Lisa” – Season 1, Antonia Herrera, María Elisa Soto-Aguilar (Punkrobot, Chile)
Perfect Brief Movie
“The Woman with the Occupied Eyes,” André Carrilho (Portugal, Blablabla Media)
“Percebes,” Alexandra Ramires, Laura Gonçalves (BAP Animation Studios, Ikki Motion pictures, Portugal, France)
“Capybaras,” Alfredo Soderguit (Palermo Estudio, Autour de Minuit, Pájaro, Uruguay, France, Chile)
Animation Faculty Brief Movie
“Adíos,” José Prats (Spain – Nationwide Movie and Tv Faculty, U.Ok.)
“Every time the Flood Arrives,” Antonio Lomas Domingo (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain)
“Treasure,” Carmen Álvarez Muñon (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain)
Commissioned Movie
“47,” Paulo Garcia, Natalia Gouvea (Zombie Studio, Brazil)
“Cineminute Pixelatl 2025 – Face Your Fears,” Humberto Cervera Baron (Interest Ingenious Studio, Ronin Studio, Bakemono, Mexico)
“We Need to Communicate,” Mario Muñoz (Voces Imaginarias, Fundación Freedom, Mexico)
Song Video
“Hero,” Paulo Garcia (Zombie Studio, Brazil)
“Horizon,” Pablo Roldán (Rudo Corporate, Argentina)
“My Means,” Jessica Bianchi (Rudo Corporate, Argentina)
Animation for a Video Recreation
“Neva,” Nomada Studio (Spain)
“Saviorless,” Empty Head Video games (Cuba)
“Shelly Manor,” Tiny Terrors Studio (Spain)
Visible Building
“47,” Paulo Garcia, Natalia Gouvea (Zombie Studio, Brazil)
“Kabuki,” Tiago Minamisawa (Minamisawa Motion pictures, WAG Productions, Bruno H Castro Filmes, Amopix, Coala Filmes, Cut up Studio, Brazil, France)
“The Woman with the Occupied Eyes,” André Carrilho (Blablabla Media, Portugal)
Animation Design
“47,” Paulo Garcia, Natalia Gouvea (Zombie Studio, Brazil)
“Paradise Buffet,” Santi Amézqueta, Héctor Zafra (Hampa Studio, WKND, DISNOSC, Spain, France)
“Kabuki,” Tiago Minamisawa (Minamisawa Motion pictures, WAG Productions, Bruno H Castro Filmes, Amopix, Coala Filmes, Cut up Studio, Brazil, France)
Sound Design and Authentic Song
“Noah’s Ark,” Sérgio Machado, Alois Di Leo (Gullane y VideoFilmes en coproducción con Symbiosys, Globo Filmes y Telecine en asociación con NIP, CMG, Kabuletê e Imagem Filmes, Brazil, India)
“Gilbert,” Alejandro Salueña García, Arturo Lacal Ruiz, Jordi Jiménez Xiberta (Agencia Freak, Spain)
“The Woman with the Occupied Eyes,” André Carrilho (Blablabla Media, Portugal)
