Stop-Motion ‘Bob Spit,’ ‘Frankelda’s Book,’ ‘Beast’ Win at Quirino Awards

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Emilio Mayorga Cesar Cabral’s “Bob Spit: We Do Not Like People,” Roy Ambriz and Arturo Ambriz’s  “Frankelda’s Book of Spooks,” and “Beast” topped the 5th Ibero-American Animation Quirino Awards, which took place May 14 at San Cristóbal de La Laguna, on the Canary Island of Tenerife.It’s no coincidence that the three main prizes have gone to stop-motion works.

The plaudits offer further proof of a growing mastery of this technique in Latin America, as well as then high level and extraordinary artistic diversity of animation titles coming to of Latin America, which is increasingly acknowledged on international markets.Produced by Coala Filmes and Cup Films in Brazil, “Bob Spit: We Do Not Like People” was also nominated for the recent Platino Awards and took the 2021 Contrechamp Award at the Annecy Int’l Film Festival.

Outsider Pictures handles worldwide distribution rights of the animated feauture. Also nabbing awards for sound design and original music, “Bob Spit” is a documentary about one of the best-known Brazilian cartoonists, Arnaldo Angeli Filho.

It’s also a hallucinogenic road movie with an ambitious artistic approach threading formal and narrative procedures such as Angeli’s Q&As with his graphic novel characters.Remarkably, all nominated titles in the feature category were directorial debuts, marking an obvious emergence of new talent in the region as well as industry build.Main kudos for an animated series and animation design went to “Frankelda’s Book of Spooks,” a production from rapidly growing Mexican studio Cinema Fantasma, behind the Guillermo del Toro-backed “Revoltoso.” HBO Max has picked up U.S.