Annecy Names Colombia 2027 Country of Honor
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- Annecy Animation Festival named Colombia its Country of Honor for 2027, announced at the June 27 prize ceremony closing the seven-day event.
- Colombia joins previous honorees Japan, Canada, Ireland, Spain, Mexico and Brazil in receiving the festival's top country recognition.
- Colombia now counts more than 30 animation and digital content studios after four decades of growth, with Bogotá serving as the main hub for Team Toon Studio, Caballo Loco Studio, Dinamita Animación, Piragna, Hierro Animación, Lucy Animation Studio and Ikartoons Animation.
- Marcel Jean, Annecy's artistic director since 2012, cited a visit to the Bogoshorts festival as evidence of 'remarkable momentum' driven by a new generation of young talent working on ambitious short and feature projects.
- Proimágenes Colombia, which also serves as the Colombia Film Commission, led the international promotion strategy that secured the 2027 honor; executive director Claudia Triana called it 'the result of decades of work by artists, producers, studios, institutions and industry associations.'
- Mária Cristina Pérez represents the new generation of Colombian animators at this year's Annecy with her fourth short, the experimental drama 'Once in a Body' ('Una vez en un cuerpo'), following 'The Plastic Turtle' (2019) and 'The Bitch' (2023).
Why it matters: Colombia's 30+ animation studios — clustered in Bogotá and producing internationally distributed series, features and shorts — gain a year-and-a-half runway to showcase their pipeline at Mifa, the festival's market for studios, buyers, distributors, platforms and investors. The 2027 platform transforms Proimágenes Colombia's ongoing co-production push into a sustained international sales window rather than a one-off screening.
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