Aguijonfilms was founded by Miguel Rueda in 2008 with the purpose to create a space of experimental animation integrated with different techniques to develop Art design, Characters, Stories for TV Series, Films, Advertising, Graphic Novels or any project that involves Animation.
Some of his clients include IBM, Renault, Ford, El Tiempo, Punto Blanco, Editorial Norma, BM&D advertising, City TV, Havana Film Festival New York City, VmeTV (PBS), McDonalds, Vida Shoes, Knoll, Post Houses Craft TV, Dexpósito & Partners and others.
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Honors & Awards
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When I met Sangre Negra
Screening:
-WINNER: Best Animated Short at 11th Delhi Shorts Int. Film Fest-2022
-WINNER: Best Animated Short at Portugal Indie Film Festival 2023
-WINNER: Best Animated Short Cortos con Ñ Madrid/ Spain 2023
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-Havana Film Festival New York 2022
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Video Killed
The Radio Star - Ori Dagan and Simone Denny - Official Music Video
WINNER: Best Animated Film (Music Video) at the 2022 ReelHeART
-Film Festival! Official selection 34 Girona Film Festival 2021 (Spain)
The Angel's Cave/ Animator director
Official selections: Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Film Festival Colorado International Sci-Fi Film Fest (Semi-Finalist) Havana Film Festival NY Green Mountain International Film Festival Winner, Bronze - Tokyo Film Awards Winner, Best Animation - Tokyo International Monthly Film Festival
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Carlos Q.D.W. Short Film
Screening:
-Latino & Iberian film Festival at Yale, 2018
-Havana Film Festival New York 2019
-Dogs Laughter Film Festival 2019
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Rabbit Movers Special Cargo, First Episode
Screening:
- Corto Circuito Film Festival New York City 2017
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"Rise" Nuf Said Music videoScreening:
- Latino &Iberian film Festival at Yale, 2016, New York
- Corto Circuito Film Festival New York City 2016
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La Ballerine
Screening:
-Havana Film Festival New York 2016 World Premier
-Red Ditch Halloween Film Festival UK 2016 Semi-Finalist
-The Americas Film festival of New York 2016
-Grand IndieWise Convention Miami, Florida 2016 Finalist
-OIFF Morocco 2016
-Indiana Short Film Festival 2016
-WINNER 2016 Best animation film at El Espejo films festival Colombia
-Latino & Iberian film Festival at Yale, 2016, New York
-Constantine's Gold Coin 2017 Serbia
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All are the same
Screening:
-Havana Film Festival New York 2013 World Premier
-Corto Circuito Film Festival New York City 2013
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The Trumpeter
Screening:
-Havana Film Festival New York 2012 World Premier
-Colombian Film Festival 2013 New York
-Le Rendez-Vous du Film D'animation de paris France 2012
-Queens Film Series to Screen at the Queens Museum of Art 2012 New York
Exhibitions
2011 Solo exhibition The Trumpeter at La Nacional Spain social club New York city
2013 A still exhibition at The Gallery Mauricio Suarez Copete Of Colombian Consulate New York City
2017 collective exhibition, Utopias: Contemporary Latin American Photography and Video at Local
Project Art Space, Long Island City, New York
2018 Collective exhibition "We Art Colombia NYC 2018" at The Gallery Mauricio Suarez Copete Of Colombian Consulate New York City
Guest professor
2016 Department of Spanish and Portuguese At Yale University
(Colombia) Animated Filmmaking in Latin America/ el arte de la animación cinematográfica en
Latinoamérica. Premiere of his new short animated film La Ballerine.
2017- College of Staten Island The city of New York How I met animation Talk and Film Screening
2020 Department of Spanish Fairfield University
2021 Department of Spanish and Portuguese At Yale University
Jury at Film Festivals
-The Americas Film Festival New York City, CUNY (the City University of New York 2014
-The Americas Film Festival New York City, CUNY (the City University of New York 2018
-Dominican Film Festival New York City, DFFNY 2019
-Latino & Iberian Film Festival At Yale University , 2019
-The Americas Film Festival New York City, CUNY (the City University of New York 2021
-HFFNY Havana Film Festival New York 2021
-Latino & Iberian Film Festival At Yale University 2022