Leaders of The Pack
Showrunner Lucía Puenzo and Fremantle executive producer Christian Vesper tell DQ about making Chilean drama La Jauría (The Pack), one of Amazon Prime Video’s first Latin American original series. At first glance, Chilean drama La Jauría (The Pack) may appear to be a conventional crime drama about the search for a missing schoolgirl. However, featuring a host of powerful performances from its female-led cast, the series goes much deeper, highlighting how abuse can take many different forms, from physical and sexual to psychological and emotional. Amid angry protests against a teacher who has been abusing his female pupils, the series opens when Blanca Ibarra, a young girl in a Catholic school, goes missing. After three female police officers from a gender crimes unit launch an investigation into her disappearance, they uncover a deadly online game that recruits men to commit acts of aggression toward women, brought to light when a video of the missing girl’s assault goes viral. As the eight-part series progresses, the police officers find they are not untouched by this game, leading their private lives and those of their families to fall apart around them. Directed by showrunner Lucía Puenzo and produced by Fabula (A Fantastic Woman) and Fremantle (The Young Pope), La Jauría was originally commissioned by Chile’s TVN but has since been picked up by Amazon Prime Video as an original series for its subscribers in Latin America, the Caribbean and Spain, where it launched last Friday. Other broadcasters to have picked up the series … Continue reading Leaders of The Pack
