14/03/2012 - Gallician production company Perro Verde Films wins Best Producer of the Year at Europe’s most important animation film event

Gallician production company Perro Verde Films, headed by Manuel Cristóbal, on March 9 won Best Producer of the Year at this year’s Cartoon Movie, an event that recently wrapped up in Lyon and where French production companies Blue Spirit Animation and Moonscoop have also made their mark. The award is the third this year for Wrinkles [+see also:
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interview: Ignacio Ferreras
film profile] by Ignacio Ferreras and produced by Perro Verde Films, after two Goya awards in February, for both Best Animation Film and, for the first time awarded to an animation film, Best Adapted Screenplay.

“We are delighted with the award,” said Cristóbal. “That Cartoon Movie, the most important animation film in Europe and possibly in the world, with its 700 accredited professionals, has chosen us as Best Producer of the Year fills us with pride. It also helps us to prepare our next projects and to continue our international development of Wrinkles , a film that still has a lot to say.”

“The frontiers of animation have exploded”, Cristóbal previously told Cineuropa (read the interview) during the last Gijón International Film Festival, where Wrinkles was presented out of competition. Although lots of the films presented at Cartoon Movie this year were for a very young audience, the event also highlighted an increasing tendency to produce different genres for adults.

For Perro Verde Films, this award is recognition of its international trajectory: “All that we do is for the international market; animation has no trouble travelling unlike many other films,” said Cristóbal. But it is also recognition of a production style characterised by a certain duality between “animation for a family audience and another more risky type of animation that can be drama, horror, or comedy”. “We like this duality, and we want to keep it this way,” said the award-winning producer.

(Translated from Spanish)