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Birdboy: The Forgotten Children

2015 Spanish film

Birdboy: The Forgotten Children

Theatrical release poster

Directed byAlberto Vázquez
Pedro Rivero
Written byAlberto Vázquez
Pedro Rivero
Based onPsiconautas
by Alberto Vázquez
Produced byFarruco Castromán
Carlos Júarez
Luis Tosar
CinematographyJose Domingo
Alberto Vázquez
Edited byIván Miñambres
Music byAránzazu Calleja
Victor García
Junna

Production
companies

ZircoZine
Basque Films
Abrakam Estudio
La Competencia Producciones

Distributed byNetflix

Release date

Running time

76 minutes
CountrySpain
LanguageSpanish
Budget€1 million
Box office$54,845[1]

Birdboy: The Forgotten Children (Spanish: Psiconautas, los niños olvidados; also known as Psychonauts, the Forgotten Children) is a 2015 Spanishadultanimatedcoming-of-agehorrordrama film written and directed by Alberto Vázquez and Pedro Rivero, based on the comic Psiconautas by Vázquez. It is the follow-up to the pair's short film Birdboy, following the titular char

Animated film director, illustrator and comic book artist.
His books have been published in countries such as Spain, France, Italy, Brazil, Turkey, China and Korea and his press illustrations have appeared in print media all over the world.
He has written and directed animated short films such as “Birdboy”, “Sangre de Unicornio” “Decorado” and “Homeless Home”.
In 2015 he made his first animated feature film “Psiconautas, los niños olvidados”, based on his graphic novel of the same name and is currently finishing his new feature film “Unicorn Wars”.

His work has won three Goya Awards, winning the Goya for Best Animated Short Film in 2012 for “Birdboy” and in 2017, the Goya for Best Film for “Psiconautas” and Best Animated Short Film for “Decorado”. He has won more than 100 international awards at festivals such as Annecy (Jury Prize 2020) and Best Film at the Stuttgart Festival. His works have been screened at festivals all over the world such as Cannes, Toronto, Annecy,

Alberto Vázquez (artist)

Spanish comic book artist and filmmaker

Alberto Vázquez Rico (born 1980) is a Spanish (Galician) comic book artist and filmmaker. He has received three Goya Awards for his animated films. His most famous works are Birdboy: The Forgotten Children, a feature-length adult animated movie based on his own graphic novel, and Unicorn Wars, an original feature-length adult animated film. He is also a drummer in the Mano de obra band.

Career

He studied on University of Vigo and University of Valencia. One of the co-founders of Polaqia comic-book creators group, he published his first album in 2002. His comic books include Freda (2003, with Kike Benlloch), Psiconautas (2006) and El evangelio de Judas (2007). His drawings were published in El País, he also illustrated works of Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft.

In 2011, together with Pedro Rivero, he adapted his own graphic novel, Psiconautas, in a form of a short animated film under the title Birdboy. It won a Goya Award and encouraged them to direct the 76-minute version, Bir

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