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Portugal Shines At 2023 Quirino Awards As ‘Nayola’ Nabs Best Feature, ‘The Garbage Man’ Best Short

João Gonzalez’s Oscar-nominated Portuguese short ‘Ice Merchants’ was also honored, taking home the visual development award.

This year’s Quirino Awards will take place on May 13 in the Canary Island city of La Laguna, Tenerife.

See the art that helped define the visual styles of this year’s five Oscar-nominated animated shorts.

The fifteen shortlisted filmmakers for the Best Animated Short Academy Award talk about the visual development of their films.

The second in our three-part interview series with the shortlisted filmmakers for the Best Animated Short Academy Award.

The first in a three-part interview series with the shortlisted filmmakers for the Best Animated Short Academy Award.

The 35th European Film Awards will will be presented in Reykjavík, Iceland on December 10.

Two animated features will also screen at the prestigious Toronto film festival.

João Gonzalez’s Ice Merchants was the first-ever Portuguese animated film to win an award at the Cannes Film Festival.

Three shorts and one live-action feature with animated sequences will screen at this year’s Cannes Critics’ Week.

“Slow Light” employs paper cut-out stop-motion and b&w hand-drawn animation to differentiate between overlapping timelines.