The Institut Français in Argentina announced this week the 31 winners of its Orillas Nuevas –  Nouveaux Rivages program, which funds cultural and creative industry projects. 

The program, co-organized by the Williams Foundation with the support of the Medifé Foundation, will provide between 10,000 and 20,000 euros for Argentine art creations and platforms in categories including animation, theater, design, video games, and publishing. 

Winners include the latest project from renowned animation filmmaker Juan Pablo Zaramella, performance arts club Paraíso, the Editors’ Fair’s Carthago networking project, and the IDA Foundation’s Argentine Design Digital Archives.

“The Orillas Nuevas-Nouveaux Rivages call was a great success,” said Argentina’s Institut Français director Frédéric Depetris in a statement, stressing the quality, diversity and creativity of the winners.  

“We wish to follow emerging artists, recognized talents and innovative ideas that will energize the creative sectors within the scope of Orillas Nuevas, such as the publishing and audiovisual market, the promotion of architectural and landscape research in the field and the communities, and the consolidation of performance artworks,” he added.  

The 31 projects will take place across the country, including Patagonia, the Pampas, and the Northwest, in the provinces of Chubut, Rio Negro, Córdoba, Santa Fé, Buenos Aires, Chaco and Misiones.

The projects were selected in two stages: first by a preselection committee of the three organizing institutions, then by a jury composed of Argentine creators Violeta Bava, Daniela Gutierrez, Carlos Herrera, Diana Szeinblum, and renowned French artists and creatives including Guillaume Aubry, Arnaud Laporte, Adrien Larouzée, Arnaud Meunier, Michele Ziegler.

The full list of projects that won the award is:

• Anamorfia by Juan Pablo Zaramella – JPZtudio
• Graphic Feminism Comics and Humor Digital Archive by Graphic Feminism 
• Argentine Design Digital Archive by IDA Foundation
• Collaborative Atlas of Popular Resilience by Cooperativa Espacial
• Sensory Bard by Corina Wilson
• BOM by Ezequiel Ruete
• Carthago by Feria de Editores / Hernán López Winne and Víctor Malumián;
• Chasco Club by Chasco Club/Santiago Llach
• Diarios Negros by Paricia Plaza
• El Barro by Martin Huberman & Monoambiente, Experimental Consortium in Architecture & Design
• Ele by Andrés Rossi
• Estado de asamblea by Gabriela Golder
• Ferial, by the Book Arts Fair (UNA) and the National University of the Arts Foundation
• Habitat by Juan Sorrentino, MONTE Residency
• Hablaba con las bestias, los peces y los pájaros, by the Society of Friends and Benefactors of the Arts of Cañada Rosquín
• Hollow Flowers by Daniel Yepes / Ruido Amigo
• Investigaciones del futuro: Territorio Ampliado by a77, CoZa and Eugenia González;
• La Hija del Delta by Bicho Raro Games
• La mujer parecida a mi by Matiz Digital / Sebastián Manusovich, Eleonora Comelli and Ange Potier
• Latent by Marina Quesada & Axel Krygier 
• The Visitors by Diego M. Castro
• Mafalda Inmersiva by Damian Kirzner / New Sock SA
• Memorias de terraformación de Acampe Radio-Activo / Gabriela Munguía, Juan Agustín Carpinello and Florencia Curci
• Navío Lucerna by Añil Inclusion Creativa
• Paraíso 2025, created and communicated by Paraíso Performance Arts Club / Cynthia Edul and Giuliana Migale Rocco
• Salvaje Federal Platform by Salvaje Federal
• Poéticas de gravedad —operaciones para dimensionar un cuerpo suspendido—, by Edgardo Mercado and Sebastián Rivas
• Seed by Planta Alta / Andrés Sehinkman, Jonathan Barg and Leandro Vita 
• Surcromía by Luis Paris
• Te traje luciérnagas, by Tamara Lang Goy from Paraje production and screen 
• Treat by Tamara Sujonitzky, Pablo Miceli and Fabián Peruggia.