'Madrid Noir', the medium-length film directed by Spanish James Castillo, wins an Emmy Award

The innovative medium-length film Madrid Black has won the award Emmy for Best Film in media interactive in the first edition of the Children’s & Family Emmy Awards under the direction of the Spanish James Castillo.

Madrid Black narrates as a disillusioned young woman He arrives in Madrid to empty the apartment he has inherited after the death of his enigmatic uncle. Little by little the memories of her childhood begin to reveal their elusive trace and Lola, the protagonist, will try to fit the pieces of her mysterious past.

What makes this studio proposal unique No Ghost y Atlas V in collaboration with Oculus, Epic Games, Creative XR y CNC is that it is a interactive virtual reality experience developed with the graphics engine Unreal. This aspect technological live in harmony with a classic aesthetic of cinema noir that embraces the animation expressiveness.

In the words of its director, this 46 minute movie duration is a tribute to Madrid, “a vibrant city that we rarely see in movies.” In the Spanish version of the film, the actors Fernando Guillén Cuervo y Godeliv Van Den Brandt They are in charge of giving voice to the protagonists of the film.

Madrid Black surge of Madrid Noir: The prologue which was developed in 2018 with the British studio of No Ghost and with which the young Spanish director won various awards, including the award for best new virtual reality film in 2018 at the Raindance festival, the most important independent film exhibition in the United Kingdom.

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