Animanostra is a Portuguese animation company founded in 1991 by Humberto Santana. The company mainly produces works for television and cinema, as well as co-productions with foreign firms.
History
editHumberto Santana founded the company in 1991[1] and its first work for television was A Maravilhosa Expedição às Ilhas Encantadas (Quest for the Enchanted Islands), a free adaptation of the Portuguese Age of Discoveries, in 1992.[2] In 1998, the company released A Demanda do R, an all-animal animated series where an evil wizard removed the letter R from the alphabet, causing misunderstanding between its inhabitants; two friends enter the Land of Letters to recover it.[3]
In 1997, it was tasked to produce an animation based on Todos os Patinhos, a Portuguese children's song, for O Jardim da Celeste, RTP's preschool education series. After catching the attention of Teresa Paixão, who recommended it to air in the 9pm children's watershed, the studio made a bedtime version of it, which started airing on RTP1 in October 1998, creating a new IP, Os Patinhos.[4] Humberto Santana was not aware of the success of the animated short; within a few months, it had amassed a high amount of merchandising.[5]
After a substantial growth in the 90s, delays in ICAM funds affected Portuguese animation studios, including Animanostra. The company had left ICAM in April and had no contract with them.[6] In the previous year, at Cinanima, Santana criticized the fact that the animation industry lacked diversified funding sources which "ruined whatever globalization perspective" for its productions.[7] In 2002, the company was in talks with Nuno Markl to produce an adult animated concept, PornoSilva, a Flash animated series about a suburban adult film production company.[8]
In February 2024, the company, owing to its co-production of the theatrical film They Shot the Piano Player was nominated for a Cartoon Movie award for best animation studio.[9]
Filmography
edit- 1992: Quest for the Enchanted Islands (40x5, RTP)
- 1993: Poemas Pintados (13x2, RTP)
- 1993: Tóni Casquinha (2x30)
- 1993: Oscar (3x30)
- 1994: Elmer (2x1)
- 1994: Johnny With No Fear/João Sem Medo (five-minute pilot)
- 1995: Ginjas (three two-minute pilots)
- 1995: Para Bom Entendedor/For Good Understanding (one-minute pilot)
- 1996: O Jardim da Celeste (segments for season 1, RTP)
- 1997: A Família Barata/The Barata Family (four-minute pilot)
- 1997: O Jardim da Celeste (segments for season 2, RTP)
- 1997: The Missing R (13x13, RTP)
- 1998: Os Patinhos (six animated shorts for RTP)
- 2001: O que D(in)is Machado (30-minute documentary for RTP)
- 2002: A Estrela de Gaspar (26-minute special for RTP)
- 2002: Two Diaries and a Tile (animated short)
- 2002: Angelitos (120x1, RTP and TV Cultura)
- 2003: Ficções do Assombro (6x6)
- 2004: As Aventuras de Móli (13x4)
- 2004: Without Breathing (animated short)
- 2004: As Aventuras do Patinho (10x2, RTP)
- 2006: The Guilt (animated short)
- 2006: Stories from Molero (6x6)
- 2006: The Night Shift (8x5)
- 2006: Tomorrow, No Doubt (animated short)
- 2006: A Ilha das Cores (segments for season 1, RTP)
- 2006: Silence (animated short)
- 2006: Zé Pimpão, The Speedy (animated short)
- 2006: Woman (6x5'30")
- 2007: Januário and the War (animated short)
- 2008: Eu Quero Ser (26x4, RTP)
- 2008: Journal of a Record's Inspector (animated short)
- 2008: Birds (animated short)
- 2009: A Ilha das Cores (segments for season 2, RTP)
- 2009: A Step Could Be a World (animated short)
- 2009: Something Important (animated short)
- 2009: As Aventuras de Móli 3D (three-minute CGI pilot for an animated feature film)
- 2009: Overcome Fears (6x2)
- 2010: Foxy & Meg (26x3)
- 2010: Dog Memory (animated short)
- 2011: Fado of a Grown Man (animated short)
- 2011: Ginjas (26x1, RTP)
- 2011: My Music (animated short)
- 2011: Unintended (animated short)
- 2012: The Refugee (animated short)
- 2012: Fado in the Night (animated short)
- 2012: Cata Livros (23x1)
- 2013: Figurões (four-minute pilot)
- 2016: Garatujo/Doodle (animated short)
- 2016: The Countryside by the Sea (animated short)
- 2016: Final Call (animated short)
- 2017: Bird's Heart (five-minute TV special pilot)
- 2018: October 28 (animated short)
- 2018: Because This Is My Craft (animated short)
- 2018: Ratio Between Two Volumes (animated short)
- 2019: This Is Not a Hat (26-minute TV special)
- 2019: Tide (animated short)
- 2019: So But Not So (animated short)
- 2020: Table (animated short)
- 2021: The Doctor's Wife (animated short)
- 2022: Octopus (animated short)
- 2022: Something I Said (animated short)
- 2022: Kafka's Doll (animated short)
- 2023: A Bear Named Wojtek (28-minute special; animation services)
- 2023: Páscoa (animated short)
- 2023: They Shot the Piano Player (feature film)
- 2023: The Rock and the Wave (25x2; animated miniseries aired during the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution)
- 2024: Ups! (animated short)
- 2024: Nwavu, the Blind Man (animated short)
- 2025: Silver Salts (animated short)[10]
References
edit- ↑ Cinemateca - Programação
- ↑ A Maravilhosa Expedição às Ilhas Encantadas (1992)
- ↑ A Demanda do R (1998)
- ↑ Os Patinhos em versão de embalar
- ↑ Vamos fazer óó
- ↑ Animação portuguesa vive situação de crise
- ↑ Animação portuguesa vive momento de viragem
- ↑ Media
- ↑ O cinema de animação português está entre os nomeados aos prémios Cartoon Movie
- ↑ Filmografia