Pepita Pardell
{{Short description|Pioneer of animated cinema in Spain (1928–2019)}}
Pepita Pardell Terrade (16 March 1928 – 11 July 2019) was a Spanish animator, cartoonist, illustrator, and painter.{{cite web |title=Garbancito de la Mancha |url=http://www.girona.cat/shared/admin/docs/d/o/dossier_premsa_catala.compressed.pdf |publisher=Museu del Cinema. Collecció Tomàs Mallol. |accessdate=16 December 2019 }} She was a pioneer of animation cinema in Spain. In 1945, she worked on the first animated film, in color, in Europe.{{cite web |title=Catàleg Animac 2016 |url=http://www.animac.cat/arxius/cataleg-animac-2016 |website=animac.cat |accessdate=16 December 2019 |date=2016}}{{cite web |title=Pepita Pardell |url=http://www.articularte.com/pepita-pardell/ |publisher=Articularte |accessdate=16 December 2019 |date=17 April 2016 |archive-date=18 November 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191118115535/http://www.articularte.com/pepita-pardell/ |url-status=dead }} Pardell was awarded the Creu de Sant Jordi in 2018.
Biography
Pepita Pardell Terrade was born in Barcelona on 16 March 1928.{{cite web |title=L'ACC lamenta la mort de Pepita Pardell, Membre d'Honor |url=https://www.academiadelcinema.cat/ca/actualitat-ca/actualitat-noticies/3674-l-acc-lamenta-la-mort-de-pepita-pardell-membre-d-honor |website=www.academiadelcinema.cat |accessdate=16 December 2019 |language=ca-es}} At the age of fourteen, Pardell told her mother that she didn't want to be a shop assistant (a traditional job for a girl of her age, at that time). Her father, from whom she inherited a passion for drawing, let Pardell study at Escola de la Llotja. Her grandfather, Josep Pardell Mateu, worked with Antoni Gaudí.{{cite news |last1=Escales |first1=Carme |title=Pepita Pardell: "Yo quería dibujar, no quería ser dependienta" |url=https://www.elperiodico.com/es/sociedad/20160222/pepita-pardell-yo-queria-dibujar-no-queria-ser-dependienta-4919050 |accessdate=16 December 2019 |work=elperiodico.com |date=22 February 2016 |language=es}}
Pardell began her career in the field of animation in 1944, when she worked for the production company Balet y Blay and was part of the Garbancito de la Mancha team (1944), which was the first animated feature film in Spain and the first European film of color cartoons, directed by Arturo Moreno.{{cite web |title=«Catàleg Exposició Garbancito de la Mancha a Museu de Girona |url=http://www.girona.cat/shared/admin/docs/d/o/dossier_premsa_espanol_compressed.pdf |publisher=Museu del Cinema de Girona |accessdate=16 December 2019 |language=Catalan |date=2016}} At Balet and Blay, she also participated in the creation of Alegres vacaciones (1948) and Los sueños de Tay-Pi (1952).Nadal, Núria «De Garbancito de la Mancha a Los sueños de Tay-Pi: Una aproximación al cine de animación español producido por Balet y Blay. (in Catalan)
From 1951 to 1962, Pardell worked as an illustrator, drawing comic books for Ediciones Toray. In 1962, she went to work for the animation producer Estudios Buch-Sanjuán.Bendazzi, Giannalberto. Cartoons. 110 años de cine de animación. Madrid: Ocho y medio, 2003, p. 559. {{ISBN|84-95839-44-X}}. (in Spanish). Subsequently, she affiliated with Publivisión, Pegbar Productions, Equipo, and Cine Nic.{{cite news |last1=Llordés |first1=Lluís Giralt i |title=Pepita Pardell, una de les pioneres del cinema d'animació |url=https://www.nuvol.com/sa-illustrissima/pepita-pardell-una-de-les-pioneres-del-cinema-danimacio-31567 |accessdate=16 December 2019 |work=Núvol |language=ca}} Throughout her long career, Pardell worked with directors such as Robert Balser and Jordi Amorós.{{Citation needed|date=August 2022}}
Filmography
- 1945: Garbancito de la Mancha
- 1948: Alegres Vacaciones
- 1952: Los sueños de Tay-pi
- 1975: La doncella guerrera
- 1978: Yogi's Space Race
- 1979: El león, la Bruja y el Armario
- 1983: The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show (series de televisión)
- 1984: Goldilocks and the Three Bears
- 1986: Mofli, el último Koala
- 1990: Despertaferro
Awards and honors
- 2016, Trajectory prize, Animac{{cite web |title=Clausura. Premio a la trayectoria para: Pepita Pardell — Animac |url=http://www.animac.cat/mostra-es/sessions/premio-trayectoria/2016/cloenda.-premi-a-la-trajectoria-per-pepita-pardell |website=www.animac.cat |accessdate=16 December 2019 |language=Catalan}}
- 2018, Honorary Member, Catalan Film Academy{{cite web |title=La Festa d'Estiu del Cinema Català aplega més de 600 convidats als jardins del Palauet Albéniz |url=https://www.academiadelcinema.cat/ca/actualitat-ca/actualitat-activitats-academia/3424-la-festa-d-estiu-del-cinema-catala-aplega-mes-de-600-convidats-als-jardins-del-palauet-albeniz |website=www.academiadelcinema.cat |accessdate=16 December 2019 |date=5 July 2018 |language=ca-es}}
- 2018, Creu de Sant Jordi{{cite web |title=El Govern distingeix amb la Creu de Sant Jordi 30 personalitats i 24 entitats |url=https://govern.cat/salapremsa/notes-premsa/307212/govern-distingeix-creu-sant-jordi-30-persones-24-entitats |website=Govern.cat |publisher=Generalitat de Catalunya |accessdate=16 December 2019 |language=Catalan |date=17 July 2018}}
- 2019, Vila de Gràcia Premi, Individual Prize of Honor{{cite news |title=L'Encant de Gràcia i Pepita Pardell, premis principals Vila de Gràcia 2018 |url=http://www.independent.cat/2019/04/12/lencant-de-gracia-i-pepita-pardell-premis-principals-vila-de-gracia-2018/ |accessdate=16 December 2019 |work=L'Independent de Gràcia |date=12 April 2019 |language=Catalan}}
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