Amazon Prime Video, one of today’s most important streaming platforms, communicated the premiere of new original Latin American series, among which national creations are highlighted. La Jauría (“The Pack”), a series produced in 2019 by Fábula, was presented as the service’s first title from Chile, following interest by several companies in the rights to this series.
Directed by Lucía Puenzo and starring Antonia Zegers, Daniela Vega, María Gracia Omegna, and Alberto Guerra, La Jauría is one of the television productions featured in the 2019-2020 CinemaChile TV catalogue.
The production, divided into eight episodes, centers its narrative on a group of students that take over their school in protest after a sex abuse scandal that implicates one of its teachers. During the occupation, Blanca Ibarra — the leader of the protests — disappears. Hours later, a video of a girl being gang raped by a group of masked men goes viral. The only clue the police have is that all of the attackers belong to the same Whatsapp group, known as “The Pack”. With Blanca’s destiny unknown, her rapists still free, and ever more public protests against the crime, an investigative police team will take on the most difficult case of their careers.
Meanwhile, filmmaker Andrés Wood, who recently premiered his new film Spider, and who, on January 25th will compete alongside other films at the Goya Awards, will be the director of the first adaptation of the book “News of a Kidnapping” by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez. It is a six-episode production that boasts the executive production of Rodrigo García, son of the writer, along with María Elena Wood at Invercine&Wood, and Stuart Ford at AGC Television.
