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Manu Mazzaro & Sauvage Surrender to Andalusian Magic

Posted on Wednesday, October 7, 2026

Roma director Manu Mazzaro and Sauvage animation director Ernest Desumbila merge 3D, live-action, motion capture, and AI into the single most ambitious and un-touristy tourism film you may ever witness.

Designed to attract younger audiences and in production for more than six months, this latest chapter of the Andalusian Tourism Crush campaign (titled The Surrender), was produced thru Ogilvy Spain, scored by Hans Zimmer, and premiered at San Diego Comic-Con Málaga 2026.

Juan P. Moreno and Javier Senovilla, ECDs at Ogilvy Spain: This project leaves a bittersweet taste for several reasons. On the one hand, because it is a kind of farewell to the Andalusian Crush campaign, but during all this time we worked with a freedom and creative ambition that, in today’s advertising industry, seem to be in danger of extinction.

Images

A person walks up stone stairs toward a clock tower in a stylized, black-and-white village reminiscent of The Surrender film by Manu Mazzaro. Frame from Stash Magazine article.

Close-up of a sweaty woman with an intense, determined expression, her teeth clenched as she embodies Andalusian Magic. Frame from Stash Magazine article.

A young person looks toward a staircase where a tall, dark, furry creature with a pale face from The Surrender stands silhouetted in a bright doorway. Frame from Stash Magazine article.

A person in a yellow Sauvage jacket clings to a gold-trimmed wall lined with paintings, overlooking a broken stone balcony in a vertical hall filled with Andalusian magic. Frame from Stash Magazine article.

A person on a white horse stands near a kneeling figure in a desert landscape defined by Andalusian magic, with a large, leafless tree in the foreground. Frame from Stash Magazine article.

Credits

Client: Andalusia Tourism

Agency: Ogilvy Spain
CCO: Roberto Fara
ECD: Javier Senovilla and Juan Pedro Moreno
CD: Miguel Provencio and Víctor Vázquez

Production: Roma
Director: Manu Mazzaro
CEO: Pablo García Acón
EP: Juan Bascon
Producer: Alex Bareno
Production Director: Carlos Martin
Post-Production Director: Tamara Diaz
Live Action DOP: Toni Rey
Live Action Art Director: Vero Dichy (Dear Fucking Love)
Live Action Stylist: Celia Arias
Live Action Editor: Jesus “Rullo” Diáz

Animation: Sauvage
Animation Director: Ernest Desumbila
Executive Producer: Eva Laffitte
Producer: John Aoun, Yukio Montilla
AI Creative Supervisor: Albert Montero
Concept Artist: Rafael Teruel
2D Artist: Santiago Manuel
CGI-to-AI Developer: Nico Zarza
Storyboard/Character Artist: Frame Alcala
2D Artist: Alex Baelo
Offline Editor: Joao Teixeira
UI Artist: Vivien Moundzengoulou
Nuke Compositor: Juan Gorospe, Marcos Palazzesi, Miranda Farhat, Marc Costa
Houdini Artist: Roger Oller
3D Generalist: Pol Villalba
Colorist: Xavi Santolaya
After Effects & Online Conform Artist: Ferran Folch

Post: McNulty & Sauvage
EP: Cata Inda
Head of Post-Production: Jordi Doll, Manuel Zamora
CD/Visual Development Lead: Rodrigo Rodríguez
AI Artists Esteban Perles, Sara Lainez, Diego Lorca
Flame Artist: Oceano Mateos, Jaime Guerra
CFO: Mar Marcos

Music: Hans Zimmer

Music/Sound Studio: Isilik Studio
Sound Effects & Ambience Editors: Ángel Rojas, Alex Aller, Xavier Pitarch, Martin Jimenez, Luis Ortega
Sound Coordinator: Luis Ortega
Sound Premix Mixer: Luis Ortega
Additional Music: Alex Aller
Flamenco Singer: Jose Luis Hernández
Flamenco Guitarist: Juanfe Pérez
Foley Studio: El Pertigosaurio
Foley Editors & Recordists: Martin Jimenez, Daniel Rincón

Voice-Over Recording Studio: Sonomedia
Voice Talent Representation: Intengua
Female Voice-Over: Almar
Male Voice-Over: Jeef

Stephen Price

Stephen is the co-founder/CD of Stash Media Inc. and the executive editor of Stash Magazine and the Stash Permanent Collection.
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Category: AI, Animation, Branded Content, CG, Character Animation, Featured, VFX · Tags: Andalusia Tourism, Ernest Desumbila, Manu Mazzaro, ogilvy, Roma, Sauvage.tv