Lucas Nine
- Writer
- Director
- Animation Department
Lucas Nine was born in Buenos Aires where he studied Fine Arts and Cinema. He's illustrator, designer, graphic novel author and director of animated films. His artwork was exhibited in several shows in Argentina, Brazil, France, Japan, Italy, Greece and Spain and published in magazines, newspapers or books from these countries.
He took part in the Bologna Illustrators Exhibition (Italy and Japan). His artwork was awarded in several occasions in different countries.
His short feature cartoon "Les Triolets" was shown in the II Festival de Cine Independiente de Buenos Aires (2000), Annecy's Animation Festival (France, 2002, 2003 and 2010), Castelli Animati Festival (Italy, 2002), Festival de Cine de Mar del Plata (Argentina, 2007), Animadrid (Spain, 2009), Filme im Schloss (Germany, 2011) and exhibited by the Argentine and Swiss TV in 2002 and 2004. He was screenwriter and director of one of the segments of the feature film "Ánima Buenos Aires" (2012). This film has received the following awards: Grand Prix Platinum in the Future Film Festival of Bologna (Italy); Grand Prix in the Utrecht International Film Festival (Holland); Premio Coral in the Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano de La Habana (Cuba); Best Feature Award in the Festival Internacional de Córdoba (Argentina); Best Animation Feature Award in Anilogue- Budapest International Animation Festival (Hungary); Best Feature Award in the Montreal International Animation Film Festival (Canada).
His books as author include "Dingo Romero" (Spain, 2004; France, 2008), "El Circo Criollo" (Argentina, 2009) "Thé de Noix" (France, 2011; Argentina, 2015), "Les contes de suicidé" (France, 2016), "Borges, Inspector de Aves" (Argentina, 2017; France, 2018).
His work was reviewed in the Geijutsu Shincho magazine (Japan) and the Novum Gebrauchsgraphik (Germany).
In 2018 he made his first solo exhibition at the Barbier et Mathon gallery in Paris.