IIM Awards

The IIM Awards - created in 2011 for Institute’s 30th anniversary - are granted by an international jury composed of artists, directors, programmers, university professors, and educators after consultation with French and foreign leading figures in the puppetry world.

• The Award for Transmission celebrates a leading figure from the world of puppetry who has worked on training young generations of puppeteers with a view to transmitting his or her techniques and way of working through the elaboration and implementation of an adapted pedagogy.
• The Award for Creation/Experimentation celebrates a young artist or a relatively recent company that has renewed the languages and practices of puppetry through experimentation and new aesthetic forms.
• The Award for Research is given for a recent work of research which sheds new light on the arts of puppetry.

The trophy, a Püberg, was designed by Luc Amoros, great master of shadow theatre. It is a replica of the Püberg character, avatar of Punch and Karagöz, created by the artist over 30 years ago.