AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS

Awards

• NYIFA – New York International Film Awards™ 2021: Best Animated Film
• New York Animation Film Awards 2021: Best Director
• Rockie Awards BANFF World Media Festival 2022 : Best Animation Youth
• Cartoons on The Bay 2022: UNICEF Award
• World Film Carnival – Singapore 2021: Outstanding Achievement Award
• Auber International Film Festival 2021: Best Animation
• Budapest Film Festival 2022: Best Animation
• Royal Society of Television & Motion Picture Awards 2022: Best Animated Film
• Tokyo Film Awards 2022: Golden Winner in the Best Animation Category
• Druk International Film Festival 2022: Outstanding Achievement Award
• Black Hat Film Festival 2022: Best Animation
• Art Stream 2022: Best Animation Honorable Mention
• Stockholm City Festival 2022: Best Animated Film
• Boden International Film Festival 2022: Best Animated Film
• Kings Cross Film Awards 2022: Best Animation Short
• Lacorne Internationational Film Festival 2022: Best Animation
• Sicafilm Los Angeles International Film Awards 2022: Best Animation – Special Category
• KIAFF Kwetu International Animation Film Festival 2022: Best Short
• Eastern Europe Film Festival: Best Animation
• Sweden Film Awards 2022: Best Animation
• Couch Film Festival Toronto 2022: Best Director
• International World Film Awards 2022: Award Winner Animation
• Tagore International Film Festival 2022: Best Animated Film
• Metropolis Film Festival 2022: Best Animation / Best Sound Track
• International Tour Film Festival 2022: Best Animation
• Cinematic Film Festival Bucharest 2022: Best Animated Film
• Madrid Film Awards 2022: Best Half-Length Film
• Veracruz Itinerant Short Film Festival 2022: Best Animation Short Fiilm
• Munich Film Awards 2022: Best Animation
• Berlin Film Awards 2022: Best International Short
• Sea of Art 2022: Honorable Mention – Best Animation
• Brno Film Festival 2022: Honorable Mention Best animation
• Festival del Cinema di Cefalù 2022: Honorable Mention
• Matera International Film Festival 2022: Best Animation Film
• Fesitval del Cinema de Girona 2022: Animation – Best Picture

Nominations

• Los Angeles Italia 2022: Official Selection
• Providence Children’s Film Festival 2022: Official Selection – People’s Choice Award
• Providence Children’s Film Festival 2022: Official Selection – Special Jury Prize
• Tokyo Anime Award Festival: Nomination – Best Feature Film
• Palm Springs Animation Film Festival 2022: Official Selection – Best Animated Feature
• Hollywood Arab Film Festival 2022: Finalist – Best Animation Feature
• Imaginaria 2022: Finalist – Best Animated Feature
• Cannes Film Awards: Finalist – Best Animation
• Monaco Straming Film Festival 2022: Finalist – Best Animation
• Paradise Film Festival 2022: Official Selection Best Animation
• Lumiére International Film Festival & Awards 2022: Finalist – Best Animation
• Brighton International Animation Festival 2022: Finalist – International Section
• MM Fest 2022: Finalist – Senior
• Ischia Global Film Festival 2022: Ischia Special Challenge
• Cardiff International Film Festival 2022: Finalist – Feature Film
• HECare Film Festival (Human-Environment Care Film Festival HECFF): Finalist – Human Rights / War and Displacement
• The Standalone Film Fest & Award: Official Selection Animation Film
• Golden Short Film Festival: Official Selection Golden Animated Short
• Lonely Wolf International Film Festival 2022: Nominee Best Animation
• Lonely Wolf International Film Festival 2022: Nominee Best Created Environment
• Lonely Wolf International Film Festival 2022: Best Character Design
• International Hollywood Short Film Festival 2022: Nomination – Official Selection
• Canada Yes! Let’s Make a Movie Film 2022 Festival Nominee Best Feature Film
• 6th annual Cultural Animation Film Festival CAFF: Nomination
• Animate Australia 2022: Short Animation Finalist
• Golden Short Film Festival 2022 Rome: Finalist
• Europa Film Festival 2022: Finalist
• Rome Prisma Film Awards 2022 : Finalist Best Animation Short
• Cardiff International Film Festival 2022: Official Selection
• Universal Film Festival 2022: Official Selection
• Children Rights Film Festival 2022
• Liberty International Movie Festival 2022
• Tbilisi International Animation Festival 2022
• Festival Internacional De Cine De Derecho Humanos Miradas Diversas 2022
• Monacorti: Screening Fuori Concorso / Out of Competition

Awards

• Holidays365 International Film Fest 2020: Best Sound Design Animated Short Film
• Holidays365 International Film Fest 2020: Shooting Star Jury Award 2020
• Holidays365 International Film Fest 2020: Best ScreenPlay Animated Short Film

Nominations

• Kidscreen Awards 2020: Finalist Best Animated Short Film
• Biaf – Bucheon International Animation Festival 2020: Official Selection
• Hiroshima International Animation Festival 2020: Animation for Children
• Sedicorto Forlì International Film Festival 2022: Animare
• Miami Jewish Film Festival 2022

• Shorts International Film Fest 2019: Award Best Short Shorter Kids’n’ Teens
• Shorts International Film Fest 2019: Audience Award Shorter Kids’n’ Teens
• Durango Independent Film Festival 2021: Audience Award

• Cartoons on the Bay: Best TV Pilot

• Corti D’Argento: Special Prize

• Festival International du Film sur L’art: Sélection Officielle

• International Film Festival of Salerno: Cartoon Trophy
• Cartoons on the Bay: Pulcinella Award Best Adventure Series

Internacional de Cine par L’Infancia y la juventude de Buenos Aires 2004: Special mention as Best Animation Film

• Dervio Festival 2001: Best Animation

• Castelli Animati International Film Festival, Genzano: Jury Grand Prize
• Dervio Festival, 2001 : First Prize
• Fabrizio Bellocchio Prize: awarded by the Mayor of Rome

• Dervio Festival: Best Original Character
• Dervio Festival: Best Animation

• Dervio Festival: Jury Prize for Best Film

• Expocartoon, Rome: Fantoche Award

• Expocartoon, Rome: Fantoche Award
• Cannes Festival: Short Films Official Selection

• Bourge-en-Bresse Festival: Audience Award
• MoMA, New York, 1990: Official projection

• Cannes Festival, 1998: Short Films Official Selection

• Europa Cinema, 1986: Special Mention
• Annecy Festival: Incontro Cinema Italiano
• Treviso Festival, 1988 : Best Short Film