Griselda Gonzalez Gentile’s Luminosa Venture Films has boarded the animated series “Hollow Flowers,” created by multi-media artist and filmmaker Daniel Yepes.
“Hollow Flowers” joins a Luminosa production slate that includes “Ernesto Che Guevara, un Canto Incluso,” a documentary revisiting the legacy of Che Guevara’s thoughts in the contemporary world, and “The Beauty of the Instant,” a fiction feature presenting at this year’s Sanfic Industria Ibero-American Work in Progress sidebar.
Currently in development, the “Hollow Flowers” series is part of a trans-media dark fantasy animated project for teens and adults. It will also include a short film, a video game and a comic. The series will be 20 episodes long, with each clocking in at 15 minutes. Yepes has already produced a teaser and a bible and is courting potential partners for the various formats.
Early iterations of “Hollow Flowers” have already featured extensively at markets and festivals around the world, including the Marché du Film, Ventana Sur, Fantastic Pavilion, Guadalajara, Weird Market and many more. A “Hollow Flowers” short won the Unreal Engine Short Film Challenge in 2022.
“Hollow Flowers” is the story of Kai, a teenage girl who wakes up to find that she’s the last person in the world and that her current home is being slowly destroyed by giant shadows. The girl must travel through her dreams and memories to try to discover what’s happening and how to get her old life back.
The project’s various formats will blend traditional 2D, CG, stop-motion and cut-out techniques – if not more. Featuring anime-influenced aesthetics, the show’s early artwork shows off gritty, dystopian sets flooded with lots of greenery and, of course, plenty of shadows.
As Kai is forced to visit different dreams and memories as part of her quest, each will feature its own unique art style and animation technique linked to whatever emotion she’s experiencing at the time.
Based in Madrid, Luminosa Venture is focused on producing films and series for global audiences that can bridge cultural gaps and introduce viewers to the wider world outside their own borders. The company is forward-thinking regarding 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 major strength and asset, offering us a more creative narrative spectrum and bringing us closer to young audiences by addressing themes in a contemporary language,” Luminosa Venture founder Gonzalez told Variety.
“‘Hollow Flowers’ is a very creative IP that deals with the different stages of grief. This multimedia project will be developed into various versions, including an animated series, a video game, and a feature-length animated film. At Luminosa Ventures Films, we firmly believe that new technologies are opening up new narrative forms and enriching the creativity of our productions. Hollow Flowers is one example of our editorial line,” she added.
