Juan Pedro de Gaspar wins the Goya for the second consecutive year to the artistic direction

For Juan Pedro de Gaspar his third Goya, after ‘The Shadow of the Law’ and ‘Blackthorn’, he has come from ‘As long as the war lasts’.

Juan Pedro de Gaspar It stands for the second year with the precious statuette in an artistic direction after last year the edition was also a winner in the same category by The shadow of the law. If on that occasion he transferred us to the dark Barcelona of the beginning of the century, in While the war lasts, Alejandro Amenábar's film recreates the Salamanca of the first days of the civil war with an impeccable reconstruction of public spaces, achieved largely through digital effects.

The winner told Panorama with his Goya in hand that his work experience with Alejandro Amenábar has been “very satisfactory since it is a passionate director of his work and very accessible, who tells you clearly what he likes and what he does not. This makes both the preparation and filming is a raft of oil”.

On the setting, Gaspar explains that “the digital effects have made them Twin Pines And they tell a lot not only because you do not have the money to do things physically but because they allow you to develop ideas that you could not do otherwise. We have used profiles from different cities and Salamanca itself since it must be thought that at the time the film is set, for example, the streets had all sidewalks and were cobbled. Now in the streets architectural barriers have been eliminated to make them more accessible and you have no money to fully rebuild all locations. ”

"The solution in the film," as Gaspar explains, was "to rebuild only four meters of sidewalk and the rest do so through digital effects. In the same way, we rebuild and win a quarter of the Plaza Mayor of Salamanca and achieve the rest through digital effects."

Juan de Gaspar also has words of recognition to the film's decorator, Naom ángeles since "here it is not usual but in the United States the Oscar of the Art Directorate goes to production and decoration because one designs the continents and the other the contents. That is crucial for the development of the characters because it is not only to fill a space of things but to fill the space of things related to a character that has its way of being, characteristics. There is also interrelation with the direction of costumes and photography."

Abundant in that team work, the art director of While the war lasts He estimates that “it is very important and very good when you notice that you are understanding yourself, that you are in the same direction and that you speak freely, not with caution. Here the director of photography is Alex Catalan And he speaks to me very frankly, when he does not see something, he tells me and we turn it so that in the end all the hands through which the project is all happy. ”

Gaspar, who has a splendid jobs like Green Zone or Blackthorn Tres Goya treasures. Has also been working on Homeland, a different job because it takes longer than a film project. His next work will be to Amenábar in a series for Movistar.