| Tadeo Jones | |
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| Directed by | Enrique Gato |
| Screenplay by | José Ángel Esteban Carlos López Manolo Matji Enrique Gato[1] |
| Edited by | Enrique Gato[1] |
| Music by | Zacarías M. de la Riva[1] |
Production company | La Fiesta Producciones[1] |
| Distributed by | Lolita Peliculitas Visual Arts |
Release date |
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Running time | 8 minutes[1] |
| Country | Spain |
| Budget | €43,000 |
Tadeo Jones is a 2004 Spanish short animated film directed by Enrique Gato. It tells the story of Tadeo Jones, an adventurer who enters a pyramid where he finds a family of mummies. The project of this film was born when Gato wanted to make a short film containing more action and humour than his previous projects, so he decided to make a parody of the adventure genre, whose representative figure is Indiana Jones. The story contains many elements from the Raiders of the Lost Ark (Indiana Jones) series of movies. The synopsis, in the director's words, is "adventurer Tadeo Jones is a little foolish but stubborn to explore an ancient pyramid and will run into a family of mummies."[a][2][3]
The film won sixty-five awards including a Goya award for best animated short film and a British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), and it was pre-selected for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film list, but it didn't gather the nomination as one of the 5 selected shorts. Three years later, there was a sequel to the film called Tadeo Jones and the Basement of Doom.[4] A feature-length animated film, Tad, The Lost Explorer, featuring Tadeo Jones, was released in 2012.[4]
- ^ a b c d e "Catalogo 2005" (PDF). Festival de Cine Internacional de Ourense. p. 56. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 August 2014. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
- ^ Nunez 2006, p. 4.
- ^ Nunez 2006, p. 5.
- ^ a b Zahed, Ramin (27 December 2012). "'Tad, the Lost Explorer' Becomes Spain's Top Animated Film". Animation Magazine. Retrieved 21 July 2014.
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