Special Activities
2026 EDITION
Full Marathon of La huella de oro + Q&A with Daniel Duche
International Animation Day is being celebrated with a multi-venue marathon that will keep you watching until your eyes beg for mercy. On Wednesday, October 28 at 6 PM, we will screen the *entire* series La huella de oro at @centroborges, followed by a Q&A with its creator and director, @danielduche.
Produced by Puño Robot and Enzo Ruso Films, La huella de oro is an original Argentine adult animated series created for Adult Swim and HBO Max. The story follows Fafner, a mercenary pursuing a trail of coins toward his inevitable destiny, traversing a fantastical, dystopian, and morally fractured world.
With no dialogue between characters and featuring the voice of Mario Castañeda as the narrative thread, the series blends Argentine comics, dark fantasy, Westerns, science fiction, and social commentary. It features ice giants, minotaurs, dragons, greed, violence, superpowers, and a treasure that might not be what it seems. Everything needed for a quiet afternoon.
╰┈➤ WHERE AND WHEN?
Wednesday, October 28 — 6:00 PM
Centro Cultural Borges
Oct 28 at the Gaumont ⚡︎ Electro Andes + Calesita + Bellolandia Talk 🧯🔥
On Wednesday, October 28, we’re celebrating International Animation Day with screenings and talks at @cine.gaumont, @centroborges, and @clublucero. An animated takeover across three venues, featuring all-day activities to suit every taste, size, and state of matter.
🪫 At the Gaumont’s Leonardo Favio Hall, we will be screening the pilot episode of Electro Andes, the Argentine action and sci-fi series created by @nachomalter and @dfg.art, and produced by @bellolandia.
Technology, ecological collapse, megacorporations, and ancient Andean forces converge in *Arcadia Iruyana*, where two siblings join an eco-terrorist cell to take on Black Mountain. An anime produced from this corner of the global south—a beautiful anomaly that Bellolandia dubbed *Sudakuga* ⚡︎🏔️
We will also screen *Calesita* by @el_sike—another Bellolandia production—alongside domestic and international short films from the Bitbang 2026 Official Selection. After the screenings, the studio team will give a talk about their processes, their projects, and the adventure of producing Argentine animation with interplanetary ambition.
╰┈➤ WHERE AND WHEN?
Wednesday, October 28, 7:30 PM
Cine Gaumont — Rivadavia 1635
10/29 – BITBANG ACADEMY → OPEN PITCHES
From virtual meetings to an in-person festival (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧
After months of meeting online—featuring classes with both international and local experts, a diverse range of subjects, plenty of debate and analysis, and a year-round active Discord server for sharing references, writing, drawing, experimenting, and refining ideas—we’re now coming together at the festival to see and hear what has been unfolding on the other side of our screens.
On Thursday, October 29, participants from the Bitbang Academy’s Annual Advanced Training Program in Animation Direction and Narrative will present their projects—including short films, series, and other animated explorations—at BITBANG12.
Expect stories about friendships that trigger a big bang, vacations consumed by obsessive thoughts, cosmic pirates, a magician who refuses to work, an antisocial vampire envious of his own brother, lives stuck in a loop, and more—all oscillating between humor, horror, and fantasy. The projects explore themes of memory, relationships, identity, loss, and the space each individual occupies. You’ll also see imagery that shifts, repeats, and refuses to remain still.
These are projects currently in development—works that have evolved through classes, collaborative exchanges, and a persistent drive to keep exploring. In this reel, we share glimpses of these projects, along with the names of those who will be delivering the pitches. 
There will be feedback from Camila Kater, Sonia Estévez, Soledad Yañez, and other key figures—to be revealed soon—in collaboration with Té de productores 
Come discover these projects and listen to the conversations that emerge around the process of creating animation. And who knows—maybe next year it’ll be your turn to share yours! ♡
╰┈➤ WHERE AND WHEN?
↳ Thursday, October 29th · 5:00 PM – 9:00 PM
↳ Escuela Da Vinci Auditorium
↳ Av. Corrientes 2049, CABA
↳ Free admission · Pitches open to the public