by Michel Ocelot · EDICIONES SM · tapa dura · ISBN 9788467515565
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This illustrated album of "Azur & Asmar", by Michel Ocelot, is a didactic fable that seeks to raise awareness about the importance of respect for other cultures and societies. The story tells the life of two children raised by the same woman: Azur, with blue eyes and blond hair, son of a nobleman, and Asmar, dark-skinned with black eyes, son of the nanny. Raised as brothers, fate separates them, becoming rivals as they grow up. What will the future hold for them?
Michel Ocelot is a French screenwriter, designer, storyboard artist and director of animated films and television programs and a former president of the International Animated Film Association. Though best known for his 1998 debut feature Kirikou and the Sorceress, his earlier films and television work had already won Césars and British Academy Film Awards among others and he was made a chevalier of the Légion d'honneur on 23 October 2009, presented to him by Agnès Varda who had been promoted to commandeur earlier the same year. In 2015 he got the Lifetime Achievement Award at the World Festival of Animated Film – Animafest Zagreb.
