The first IMAGINA festival was held in 1981, while the actual name IMAGINA was only introduced in 1986.[5] In 1985, the Prix Pixel-INA awards were created within the framework of the IMAGINA festival. The categories have changed over the years.[6]
In 2000, the festival was sold to the Monte-Carlo television festival, which decided to switch towards a meeting targeting professionals.
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"Prix Pixel-INA". MediaWiki - Histoire de l'image 2D et 3D française de 1980 à 2000. Monte-Carlo (Monaco):
Paris ACM SIGGRAPH. Retrieved May 4, 2021.