Argentine auteur Paula Hernández, helmer of “The Sleepwalkers” and “Las siamesas,” is attached to direct and co-write project series “Duarte. Evita behind the Icon,” produced by Buenos Aires-based powerhouse Kapow, the associate producer on Fabula-Fremantle hit drama “La Jauría.”
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In development, and scheduled for a 2025 second-half shoot, “Duarte” is structured as a 5 episode, 60 minute series, based on the early youth of legendary Eva Duarte – better known as Evita – the second wife of Argentine president Juan Domingo Perón.
“Duarte” is one of the projects participating at the 2024 Co-Production and Financing Forum, taking place Oct. 1-2 in Madrid, as part of the fourth edition of Iberseries & Platino Industria event.
Produced by Kapow co-founders Agustín Sacanell, Lucas Rainelli and Diego Ventura, the company’s head of scripted development, the series aims to be a journey through Duarte’s personal story and, at the same time, through Argentina during those years which, just like Eva, undergoes a full transformation.
The script is written by Hernández alongside Leonel D’Agostino, a scribe on “La Jauría,” and Pablo Giorgelli, the director and co-writer of “Las Acacias,” a Cannes Camera d’Or best first feature winner.
Hernández has directed seven features to date, all of which have been presented at major festivals. “Sleepwalkers,” a drama on a ritualistic, matriarchal and inward-looking family, world premiered at Toronto, won best film and screenplay in Havana, and was Argentina’s 2020 Oscar submission. Her road movie “Las siamesas” earned a nomination for the 2022 Goya Awards for best Ibero-American film.
“Today, it seems like talking about women and men (deconstructing women and men) is politically the right thing to do. Feminism, parity of rights and patriarchy seem to be the buzzwords that exponentially replicate like thunder,” said Kapow’s Ventura.
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He added: “In this conjuncture, it’s interesting to go back in time and give some thought to the pursuit of rights for women over the course of time (many times, without calling themselves feminists) personified in the figure of Eva Duarte.”
“’Duarte’ seeks to address many of these aspects from an intimate world. These won’t be narrated as a ‘flag of the causes,’ but rather as the genuine seed of a woman who never lost sight of her origins in order to build her own identity according to her drives and convictions and, at the same time, to build a universe for a crowd who would believe in many of her ideals,” he commented.
For “Duarte,” Kapow is closing a co-production deal with “two relevant industry players”; a major English distributor and a Spanish production company to finalise this project,” Ventura unveiled.
A production company launched in 2003 to develop content with global reach, Kapow’s standout productions also include 2016’s “Estocolmo,” Argentina’s first Netflix series, 2020-22 Amazon Original series “The President,” focusing first on the FIFA Gate scandal, and Argentina’s TV Pública’s widely-popular cooking show “Argentine Cooks.”
“We have an associative spirit and are always looking for potential partners to strengthen our projects,” Ventura explained.
“For some time now, we have been moving towards an associative model, bringing players together and being able to set up the business before going to a platform, managing to retain IP,” he concluded.
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