We travelled with them, we shared their diary work. Comming among with Michelle Bachelet; with Hugo Chávez and his daughter; with Rafael Correa in a little town far away from Quito, with Álvaro Uribe and his close side functionaries, with Evo Morales in "El Alto". We were with the people they deeply love and the ones that they better trust.
Mercedes, the sister of Fernando Lugo, Paraguay's President, opened the doors of her house and told us incredible details about his childhood. Bachelet's mother told us about her past as a hippie but, also about his husband, a Chile's army brigadier, murdered under Pinochet's rule. Daniel Ortega spoke about his days being torture and imprison in his own country, Nicaragua. Everyone, finally, draw us the knots of a complex map merging personal life and politics happening in their own countries.
Every 60 minutes chapter, in a cinema broadcast quality production, uncovers the most human and private deals in each president's life. Every chapter is organized around a central interview performed by Lic. Daniel Filmus, Former Argentine Education Minister and National Senator at present, taking place in each Government Residence. Before and then these interviews, Occidente cameras and its broadcast team, went with the presidents in every moment showing them besides their official workplace, in every journey, action, travel or meeting.
Every chapter becomes a master piece because of its aesthetics and narrative quality that allows everyone to discover details and secrets of these personalities never been shown on a former occasion.
There were necessary a hundred hours of recording, ten days of shooting and three complete broadcast teams en each country to fulfilling every chapter.
Furthermore, the distance travelled for each main character –built up responding to an exhaustive previous research- is a sizable reason for onlookers to run deep in the wealthy and thrilling world of Latin American culture, very few times widely spotted.
Presidentes de Latinoamérica is not just "another" broadcast programme. It represents Latin America's recent history and coming up politics, every day in the continuous present in the whole continent.
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