Griselda Gonzalez Gentile’s Luminosa Venture Films has collaborated on the animated series ‘Hollow Flowers’, created by multimedia artist and filmmaker Daniel Yepes.
‘Hollow Flowers’ joins Luminosa’s production including ‘Ernesto Che Guevara, un Canto Incluso’, a documentary that re-examines the legacy of Che Guevara’s thoughts in the contemporary world, and ‘The Beauty of the Instant’, a fiction film presented at this festival. Sanfic Industria Iberoamerican Work in Progress Sidebar of the Year.
The ‘Hollow Flowers’ series is currently in development and is part of a transmedia dark fantasy animation project for teens and adults. It also includes a short film, a video game and a comic strip. The series will be 20 episodes long, each lasting 15 minutes. Yepes has already produced a teaser and a bible and is looking for potential partners for the different formats.
Early versions of ‘Hollow Flowers’ have been shown extensively at markets and festivals around the world, including the Marché du Film, Ventana Sur, Fantastic Pavilion, Guadalajara, Weird Market and many more. A short film about ‘Hollow Flowers’ won the Unreal Engine Short Film Challenge in 2022.
“Hollow Flowers” is the story of Kai, a teenage girl who wakes up to discover that she is the last person in the world and that her current home is slowly being destroyed by giant shadows. The girl must travel through her dreams and memories to try to discover what is happening and how she can get her old life back.
The project’s various formats will combine traditional 2D, CG, stop-motion and cropping techniques – if not more. The show’s early artwork, with anime-influenced aesthetics, boasts gritty, dystopian sets awash with lots of greenery and, of course, plenty of shadows.
As Kai is forced to visit various dreams and memories as part of her quest, each dream will have its own unique art style and animation technique, tied to the emotion she is experiencing at that moment.
Based in Madrid, Luminosa Venture focuses on producing films and series for global audiences that can bridge cultural differences and introduce viewers to the wider world beyond their own borders. The company thinks ahead when it comes to new technologies, making “Hollow Flowers” an ideal fit for its catalog.
“My extensive experience as a producer of various audiovisual formats has led me over the past four years to produce films in virtual reality, video games and documentaries, where the use of new technologies has become a great strength and asset and offers us a great asset. a more creative storytelling spectrum and brings us closer to young audiences by tackling themes in a contemporary language,” said Gonzalez, founder of Luminosa Venture Variety.
“’Hollow Flowers’ is a very creative IP that deals with the different stages of grief. This multimedia project will be developed in several versions, including an animated series, a video game and a full-length animated film. At Luminosa Ventures Films we are convinced that new technologies open up new story forms and enrich the creativity of our productions. Hollow Flowers exemplifies our editorial lineage,” she added.