Draft:COLA Animation

COLA Animation
FormerlyCol.A — Audiovisual Colective
Industry
  • Animation
  • Film Production
Founded2015
Headquarters
Portugal
Websitecolaanimation.com

COLA Animation is a Portuguese animation film production cooperative, producing short films, music videos, advertising, and multimedia projects. The cooperative is best known for producing Ice Merchants (2022), directed by João Gonzalez, which became the first Portuguese short film to be nominated for an Academy Award. The film premiered at the Cannes Critics’ Week, where it won the Leitz Cine Discovery Prize, and went on to receive more than 150 awards worldwide, including an Annie Award for Best Short Subject.

History

COLA Animation is a Portuguese animation production cooperative founded in 2015 as an informal collective of artists working under the name Col.A – Colectivo de Animação, with the initial aim of promoting animation in Portugal through training projects and workshops. The group soon expanded into content production, beginning with stop-motion music videos for Portuguese bands, its debut project being Cinegirasol (2015) for Os Azeitonas.[1]

Initially composed of animators, illustrators, designers, and technicians, the collective evolved into a formal cooperative structure. In 2018, with the production of The Peculiar Crime of Oddball Mister Jay, COLA Animation was formally registered as COLA – Cooperativa Audiovisual. This restructuring enabled the cooperative to participate in a broader range of activities, covering short film production, advertising and institutional projects, audiovisual and multimedia works, as well as enabling broader access to public funding and fostering a horizontal decision-making model where members rotate roles depending on each project.[2][3][4]

From 2018 onwards, cinema became a central focus of the cooperative, particularly in the field of short animated films. Works produced by COLA Animation have been selected for international festivals including Cannes, Annecy, and Toronto, and have received awards at Curtas Vila do Conde, Guadalajara, Chicago, and others.[5][6]

In 2023, COLA Animation became the first Portuguese production company to achieve an Academy Award nomination, with Ice Merchants (directed by João Gonzalez) nominated for Best Animated Short Film. The film also won the Leitz Cine Discovery Prize at Cannes Critics’ Week and an Annie Award.[7]

Current Members

(in alphabetical order)[8]

  • Ala Nunu
  • António Selas
  • Bruno Caetano
  • Cristina Pîrvu
  • João Alves
  • João Gonzalez
  • Sophie Colfer
  • Susana Miguel António
  • Vier Nev

Production Library

Short Films

Release Year Title Director Genre
2025 Kosmogonia Karolina Chabier 2D Animation
2025 Sequencial Bruno Caetano Stop Motion Animation

2D Animation

2025 Borbulha Fernando Alle Live Action
2025 Two Ships McKinley Benson 2D Animation
2025 With Each Passing Day... Emanuel Nevado Stop Motion Animation
2024 The Hunt Diogo Costa 3D Animation
2024 A Visualization of a Cut Claudia Munksgaard-Palmqvist Stop Motion Animation
2023 Telsche Ala Nunu

Sophie Colfer

2D Animation
2023 Herbe Verte Eli Augarten 2D Animation
2022 Ice Merchants João Gonzalez 2D Animation
2022 Slow Light Przemyslaw Adamski

Katarzyna Kijek

2D Animation
2022 L’ombre des Papillons Sofia El Khyari 2D Animation
2019 Ahead Ala Nunu 2D Animation
2019 The Peculiar Crime of Oddball Mister Jay Bruno Caetano Stop Motion Animation
Student Internship Short Films
Release Year Title Director Genre University
2024 Kiki and Bouba: A Peachy Story Julia Wiereńko, Adrian Krzych, Basia Szczerbanowska, Kinga Chłodek, Leon Szymon 2D Animation University of the National Education Commission, Krakow [PL]
2023 The Beating Seed Marta Ribeiro (Asa), Laura Pires, Tiago Pimenta, Alice do Carmo 2D Animation UALG - University of Algarve [PT]
2021 Pasaz Bartosz Stepnik 3D Animation École européenne supérieure de l’mage [FR]

Music Videos

Release Year Title Artist Director Genre
2024 “Disappear” Reason And Impulse Ala Nunu 2D Animation
2023 “49th birthday blues” Cabrita Bartosz Stepnik 2D Animation
2022 "Petite" Curry Cristina Neto 2D Animation
2022 "Poussières"
2022 "Horsetail" Resina Mateusz Jarmulski 2D Animation
2021 “Have yourself a merry little christmas” Frank Sinatra Ala Nunu

David Calcano

2D Animation
2021 “Um dia no Coreto” Rogério Charraz Fábio Powers 2D Animation
2017 “Axl Rose” Miguel Araújo Bruno Caetano Stop Motion Animation
2016 “Fundo da Garrafa” Os Azeitonas Bruno Caetano

Rui Telmo Romão

Stop Motion Animation
2016 “Cinegirasol”

Advertisements

Release Year Title Client Director
2024 Carmen Bordallo Pinheiro Bruno Caetano

Ala Nunu

2018 App Minipreço Bruno Caetano

Luís Soares

2018 Portable Room Agência NOSSA
2017 Histórias de Natal Minipreço Bruno Caetano
2017 Cidade dos Heróis Lorenzo Degl’ Innocenti
2017 Mets ton Bonnet Innocent Pablo Camp
2017 The Magic of Craft Montblanc Simon Griesser

Lip Comarella

2016 Compal Essential Kids Apresenta... Compal Paco

Series

Release Year Title Client Director
2020-2025 Douglas Social Credit The Clifford Douglas Institute Bruno Caetano, João Alves, Luís Soares, Pedro Brito
2024 As canções da Maria - Especial Corpo Humano Sony Music João Alves
2017 As canções da Maria - Especial História de Portugal

Feature Films

Release Year Title Director
2022 O Natal do Bruno Aleixo João Moreira

Pedro Santo

Exhibitions

  • 10 Years of COLA – Audiovisual Collective (10-year celebratory exhibition at Cinemateca Portuguesa for Monstra Animation Festival, showcasing stop-motion puppets, behind-the-scenes stills and trailers)[9]
  • “The Peculiar Crime of Oddball Mr. Jay” (Museu da Marioneta)[10]

See also

References

  1. ^ DN, Redação (2016-04-20). "Azeitonas vão ao cinema com o novo single: "Girasol"". Diário de Notícias. Retrieved 2025-09-13.
  2. ^ Bettencourt, Jasmim (2023-04-02). "Entrevista a Bruno Caetano: "Planeámos para o melhor possível e superámos aquilo que planeámos"". Cinema em Portugal (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 2025-09-13.
  3. ^ SAPO. "Portugal está nos Óscares. Criadores de "Ice Merchants" contam como quebraram um enguiço de 95 anos". SAPO (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2025-09-13.
  4. ^ Correia, Vasco Maldonado. "COLA Animation: a cooperativa de produção portuguesa de "Ice Merchants" que ambiciona vencer o Óscar e que não conhece fronteiras". Observador (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 2025-09-13.
  5. ^ Milligan, Mercedes (2023-01-04). "'Ice Merchants' descongela lançamento online com sala de exibição do New Yorker". Animation Magazine (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2025-09-13.
  6. ^ "Filme "Ice Merchants" vence Prémio de Melhor Curta-Metragem Internacional em Espanha". SIC Notícias (in Portuguese). 2023-09-30. Retrieved 2025-09-13.
  7. ^ ""Ice Merchants", de João Gonzalez, é o primeiro filme português nomeado para os Óscares". www.sabado.pt (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 2025-09-13.
  8. ^ "Cola Animation - About". Cola Animation. Retrieved 2025-09-13.
  9. ^ "10 YEARS OF COLA — AUDIOVISUAL COLLECTIVE – MONSTRA Festival". Retrieved 2025-09-13.
  10. ^ "The Peculiar Crime of Oddball Mr. Jay". Museu da Marioneta. Retrieved 2025-09-13.


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