The Academy rewards 'The Infinite Trench' for making sound the protagonist

Iñaki Díez, Alazne Ameztoy,

The Goya to the Best Sound Direction fell on The infinite trench, a story of a confinement that lasts more than thirty years. The film has been awarded at the San Sebastián Festival, where it won the awards for best direction and best script, among others. She has also been nominated in the Feroz Awards and the Forqué Awards.

Nacho Royo-Villanova, after collecting the Goya for this edition, was "very happy with the work carried out on this film in which one of the challenges was to clearly capture the sound of dialogues that were produced at a very low volume. The aim was to ensure that they were not covered by other sounds produced by movement."

Those responsible for the sound of this production, Iñaki Díez, Alazne Ameztoy, Xanti Salvador and Nacho Royo-Villanova, Goya for best sound are grateful that the script "came very well planned in terms of sound design, it is a gift from the directors, which has made it easier to carry out the project later. In the case of the mixes, they have been developed off-screen. What we have tried to convey is that what the protagonists hear is what the viewer hears."

The sound in this work is another protagonist. As Alazne Ameztoy explains, "the objective is that it would serve to give authenticity to the story with details as important as the accent of the protagonists, which is limited to a rural geographic location and a very specific time. All of this gives verisimilitude to what is being narrated."

The movement of objects and the sound they produce is key to the narrative and to generate suspense in the viewer. Those responsible for the sound explain that, if we look closely, there are sequences in which Antonio de la Torre's gaze is directed at what he is seeing, and turns from one side to the other. All this movement is accompanied by the displacement of sound.

The post-production of the sound has been carried out in San Sebastián, in the room Irusoin and also, in parallel, in The Horn. Finally the entire project has been compacted into Best Digital, in Madrid with Dolby Atmos.

The infinite trench competed in the Goya category for best sound with the great winner of the night, Pain and gloryto, as well as with While the war lasts and with Who kills with iron by director Paco Plaza.