Brazilian Short GUIDA Awarded at Annecy

Guida, the short film by Brazilian director Rosana Urbes was presented with the Jean-Luc Xiberras Award for Best First Film at the 2015 edition of the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in France, which is considered the most prestigious film festival for animated films.

The film, which also won a Special Mention of the FIPRESCI Award, follows Guida, a sweet lady who has been working as a courthouse archivist for 30 years, decides to change her mundane routine when she sees a newspaper ad about life drawing classes at a cultural center.

This is the third year in a row that a Brazilian film is awarded at the Festival, after last year Ale Abreu’s The Boy and the World / O menino e o mundo won both the top prize for Best Film and the Audience Award, and in 2013, Luiz Bolognesie’s Uma história de amor e fúria (Rio 2096) won the Cristal Award for Best Film.

The 2015 edition of the Annecy International Animation Film Festival took place June 15-25 in France.