La Jauría begins production ahead of international licensing
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Michelle Clancy
| 01 February 2019

Filming has begun in Santiago, Chile on La Jauría, a co-production between Fabula and Fremantle in association with Kapow, and in partnership with TVN, the Chilean public television channel.

La Jauria features Daniela Vega, star of the acclaimed Sebastian Lelio film, A Fantastic Woman. The series also stars Antonia Zegers and María Gracia Omegna; they will play a police force who specialise in in gender-related crimes.

Fremantle will act as the global distributor for the series and the deal comes after the istributor and producer completed eight new deals for Latin America with more than 100 hours of content across drama, entertainment, factual and lifestyle programming.

Blanca Ibarra, a student and leader of a feminist movement, disappears amidst a staged protest carried out by a group of girls from Santa Inés School following an alleged case of abuse between a teacher and a student. Hours later, a recording of Blanca being raped by a group of unidentifiable men appears online and goes viral. This begins the frantic search for Blanca and to discover who are responsible for the crime.

"When I was invited to participate in this series, it captured my attention that the central axes of La Jauría are class and gender tensions,” said Lucía Puenzo, director of the show. “We live in a convulsed world, where the leading figures of recent times are thousands of women and men who take to the streets to demand their rights. Those young people who are leading social change have the strength and determination that inspires our content.”

Angela Poblete, executive producer of the series, added: "It is a great challenge to portray today's world without instrumentalising it, but respecting its dignity, its imaginaries, its strength and its truth. The feminist revolution, our relationship with social networks, misogyny and sexism, sexual abuse, bullying and the role of the different actors in society in today's moral and value dilemmas are its major themes. It intends to become a fresh and provocative series that conquers audiences without borders of sex, age or nationality.”