Emilio Mayorga Few content industries have been harder hit by COVID-19 than Latin America’s. Brazil has the second highest mortality rate in the world.
Argentina is still in first-phase lockdown, its Incaa state film-TV fund decimated. Chile hasn’t been able to shoot.In such a context, one sector, animation, has stood tall in 2020, demonstrating a “resilience” that will see it emerge fortified from COVID-19 crisis, according to a just-released report by Spain’s annual Quirino Awards, which celebrate outstanding animation in Latin America, Spain and Portugal.Published in the long build-up to 2021’s 4th Quirino Awards – scheduled for May 27-29 in the Canary Islands’ Tenerife, with a call for applications running through Jan.
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