Willie D. Burton, a production sound mixer who has won two Academy Awards, received this year’s Honorary Golden Spike Award, and is responsible for films such as The Shawshank Redemption and Seven, will open the series in the Hall of Mirrors at the Calderón Theatre with A Sonic Odyssey.

With a career spanning more than five decades, from Dreamgirls to the recent success of The Odyssey, Burton will take audiences behind the scenes of a career that has played a fundamental role in the history of sound in world cinema.

He will be in conversation with Alejandro López, the supervising sound editor and sound mixer who will present him with the Honorary Golden Spike Award. López has worked on films such as Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Doorand La Bola Negra, by Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi.

Simultaneous interpretation will be provided.