When Emmy-winning filmmaker James A. Castillo (Madrid Noir) set out to make The Quinta’s Ghost, he wasn’t adapting a historical anecdote. In the film, those ghosts literally arrive at his door, pushing him toward the desperate, hallucinatory art known today as the Black Paintings. “Painting ghosts with my style, but ones that reminded you of Goya and also fit into James’s short film, was a big challenge,” he admits. “As clear as your vision is, you have to let the artists be artists,” he says. “Projects like this push us beyond comfort zones and show what’s possible.”At its heart, though, the film belongs to Goya’s spirit.