Nahuel and the Magic Book

Nahuel and the Magical Book (Nahuel y el Libro Mágico) is a 2020 Chilean-Brazilian animated fantasy-adventure coming-of-age film produced by Carburadores, co-produced by Chilean Punkrobot Studios and Brazilian Levante Films and directed by Germán Acuña Delgadillo. This is the first animated feature that was made in Chile in collaboration with Brazil and this is the first Chilean-Brazilian 2D animated film that entered the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in Annecy, France on June 15, 2020.

Premise
Nahuel lives with his father in a fishing town, yet he has a deep fear of the sea. One day, he finds a magical book that seems to be the solution to this problem, but a dark wizard is after it and captures Nahuel’s father. This is where his fantastic adventure begins: to rescue his father while overcoming his deepest fears.

Cast

 * Consuelo Pizarro as Nahuel, a young, curious, shy and introvert 12-year-old titular protagonist who got bullied by Calfunao and Rorro, very afraid of the sea, and he's the one who stole the Levisterio to solves his fears, but then his father got kidnapped by Kalku and the quest begins to rescue his father and overcome his fears.
 * Muriel Benavides as Fresia, a young Mapuchean machi who shelters and helps Nahuel to find his father and possibly his love interest.
 * Marcelo Liapiz as Kalku, the main antagonist of the film a sorcerer who controls all crows and kidnaps Nahuel's father..
 * Jorge Lillo as Antonio, he's Nahuel's dad who's a fisherman and suffered emotionally after his wife's died at the beginning of the film. And he got kidnapped by Kalku after a storm destroys their ship.
 * Chon Chon, the goblin-like dealer from the Tavern who makes a deal with Nahuel with a riddle.
 * Guardián, an old sorcerer who lives in the abandoned house.
 * Rorro, Nahuel's other bully and the friend of Calfunao.
 * and Don Simón, the man who buys the egg at the market.
 * Sandro Larenas as Elzaino, the tavern owner.
 * Sebastián Dupont Gallardo as Ruende, a talking wolf who wanted revenge on Kalku. He was also voiced as:
 * Calfunao, Nahuel's bully.
 * Vanesa Silva as  Consuelo, Nahuel's late mom and wife of Elzaino who dies at the beginning of the film and minutes later when Nahuel was about to drown, she saves him and encourages him to be brave.
 * Raiquen, Ruende's wife who got cursed by Kalku
 * Huenchur, one of the Mapuche recoverers that save Nahuel
 * Sra Hilda, the old woman at the marketplace.
 * Sergio Schmied as Trauco, an old creature who needs Nahuel's help to find Kalku.

Production
This film was produced by Carburadores with the help of the Brazilian animation studio Levante Filmes and the other Chilean animation studios like Dragao Studios, Red Animation Studios, and Punkrobot Studio, which they created and produced Bear Story.

The writer of the script in the film were Germán Acuña and Juan Pablo Sepúlveda who they wrote together after his research back in 2012, when he was in the island of Chiloe.

The CEOs of Punkrobot and Levante Films, Patricio Escala and Sabrina Bogado, manage to help Acuña and his team to make the film as soon as possible.

The co-founder of Carburadores and the executive director from Levante Films, Sebastian Ruz and Livia Pagano, were the producers of the film.

The music composers were Acuña, Felicia Morales, and Christopher Carvajal and the sound designers like Marcelo Vidal and Leonardo Guimaraes use the software device called Alcateia Digital to create sounds for the scenes, Marcelo Jara would be the editor of the film, the art director of the film is also Acuña and Coni Adonis, The background artists such as Acuña, Coni Adonis, Javier Navarro, Francisco Vasquez, Luna Vargas and Luisa Adonis, the character design Cristobal Macaya makes the film cartoonish.

Enrique Ocampo and Rosamari Martinez were the animation directors to help the crew of animators across the studios.

The animators of the movie were from the other animation studios from Carbuadores itself, Punkrobot, Dragao, Red, and Levante.

Release
Nahuel and the Magic Book had its first premiere virtually in Annecy International Animation Film Festival from June 15 to June 30, 2020, in Annecy, France, followed by other festivals like: The SCHLINGEL International Film Festival in Chemnitz, Germany on October 10-17, 2020, The Chilemonos Festival in Santiago, Chile on October 5-24, 2020, American Film Market in Santa Monica, California, USA on November 9-12, 2020, and The Tokyo Anime Award Festival would premiere this film in Tokyo, Japan on March 12-15 2021 followed by the North American release in The New York International Children's Film Festival in New York City on March 6.

The film made its US premiere at the NYICFF on March 5, 2021.

The film's worldwide release date on Early 2021 and it would premiere in Chile, Brazil, Peru, Argentina, Colombia, the United States, and worldwide.

In popular culture
The reference of Nahuel's book, the Levisterio, in Peri's shelf from an upcoming 2021 animated film Computeropolis: Webcation