The tension and details of 'As Bestas', Goya 2023 for best sound

Aitor Berenguer, Fabiola Ordoyo and Yasmina Praderas have collected the Award Goya 2023 for best sound for his work on 'As Bestas', a film in which silence, Foley and detail are put at the service of the usual tension of Sorogoyen's films.

Facing great competitors, academics have decided to award in the Goya 2023 excellent sound design The Beasts, in which dialogues, silences and details play a fundamental role in introducing the viewer to the inhospitable environment that the multi-award-winning film captures. Sorogoyen, which has triumphed with the Goya for Best Film and Best Director, among other awards.

To Berenguer, who already won the Goya for Best Sound for Veronica, considers that the greatest challenges of the film have come through the inhospitable environment in which it was filmed The Beasts: "The places we have had to climb, move all the equipment and face the most varied weather conditions have been the biggest challenges of the film. We have been in the middle of the mountain fighting against wind, tide, snow, mud and wonderful days of sun." Elated by the recognition, Berenguer considers working with Sorogoyen himself to be, in itself, a challenge of its own: "Rodrigo leads us to improve ourselves every day and try to do things we have never done before. It is a total challenge."

From a post-production point of view, Run He acknowledges that the work has been easier by having a “very good direct sound.” From that point, everything has been a sound engineering task carried out with the software Pro Tools of Avid: “The film has very powerful dialogues that had to be praised in some way in post-production, to then build an entire sound plot with silences, small details and minimalist sounds that have transmitted all that loneliness of the character and have given us that tension that the plot required.” “Therein lies the maximum difficulty, but also the maximum pleasure,” emphasizes the head of sound post-production.