Anima Mundi – International Animation Festival of Brazil

Anima Mundi – International Animation Festival of Brazil

Also known as: Anima Mundi
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Anima Mundi was founded in Rio de Janeiro in 1993 by the animators Aída Queiroz, Cesar Coelho, Léa Zagury and Marcos Magalhães. Its first edition screened 144 films at the Banco do Brasil Cultural Centre; a São Paulo leg followed in 1997, and the festival then ran in both cities. From 2012 the Grand Prize-winning short film was eligible for Academy Awards selection.

Submissions covered short films, Brazilian short films, children’s shorts, portfolio, feature films, children’s features, gallery and student films, and the 2019 call added documentary shorts and virtual reality. The latest edition on record, the 27th, took place in 2019: 17–21 July in Rio de Janeiro and 24–28 July in São Paulo. It went ahead thanks to a crowdfunding campaign after the festival lost its long-time sponsor Petrobras.

Country

Brazil

Categories

Animation, Feature, Short, Student

Awards and prizes

Selected films competed for the award for best animation in each category. The winner of the Anima Mundi Grand Prize was qualified to represent Brazil in the Academy Awards selection of animated shorts.

Festival rules

The 2019 call for entries was free of charge and accepted short films, Brazilian short films, short films for children, portfolio, feature films, feature films for children, gallery and student short films, with documentary short films and virtual reality as new categories. Only films not submitted to previous editions of the festival were accepted.

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