The animated co-production Mundo de Lírio has achieved a new milestone by winning the Latin American Animated Series Competition for audiences under six at the 15th Chilemonos International Animation Festival. The prestigious award solidifies the project’s rising profile within the regional animation landscape.
Produced jointly by Akwa Creative Lab (Brazil) and GVG Producciones (Chile), the musical series has been building steady momentum since launching its distribution strategy last year. Driven by strong creative fundamentals, the property has already surpassed half a million views on YouTube and secured key international festival selections, including prominent screenings at MONSTRA – Lisbon Animation Festival in Portugal and the Abidjan Animation Festival in Ivory Coast.
The Chilemonos accolade comes on the heels of the series’ successful regional expansion, which recently included a linear broadcast deal with NTV Chile for its preschool programming slot—a milestone finalized during the Quirino Awards by creators Amanda Fernandes (Akwa Creative Lab), Julian Rosenblatt (GVG), and NTV‘s Programming Director Mariana Hidalgo.
‘We are thrilled with the journey Mundo de Lírio has taken’, stated Fernandes, highlighting the strategic effort put into researching Ibero-American biomes and developing musical rhythms that reflect true Latin American identity.
The award-winning series consists of 26 seven-minute musical episodes centered on Lírio, a five-year-old Afro-descendant boy raised by a single mother, who learns about emotional growth and daily self-care through his interactions with nature. To complement its television and festival run, the franchise is expanding its transmedia footprint with the release of four musical streaming albums, split between early-childhood lullabies and up-tempo tracks from the show’s soundtrack.
