Bala Loca Explained

Genre:Serial drama
Creator:
  • Marcos de Aguirre
  • David Miranda Hardy
Director:
  • Gabriel Díaz
  • Óscar Godoy
Country:Chile
Language:Spanish
Num Seasons:1
Num Episodes:10
Executive Producer:
  • Marcos de Aguirre
  • David Miranda
  • Rodrigo Díaz
Location:Santiago, Chile
Runtime:45 minutes
Company:Filmosonido Producciones
Network:Chilevisión

Bala Loca (originally Entero Quebrado)[1] is a Chilean television series created by Marcos de Aguirre and David Miranda and produced by Filmosonido for Chilevisión.[2] Bala loca means "stray bullet".

The series revolves around an investigation by a disabled journalist, Mauro Murillo (Alejandro Goic), and features a cast with both established actors including Alfredo Castro, Aline Kuppenheim, Julio Milostich, Catalina Saavedra, Pablo Schwarz, Ingrid Isensee, as well as younger actors such as Fernanda Urrejola, Mario Horton and Lucas Bolvarán.[3]

The production was the recipient of the annual grant from Chile's National Television Council in 2014. It premiered on television on July 4, 2016. The first season ended on September 4, 2016, with a double episode.[4]

Plot

The main protagonist is Mauro Murillo (Alejandro Goic). After fighting the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, he became a celebrity journalist, a fact which some of his colleagues still do not forgive. At the peak of his career, he suffered a car accident that left him in a wheelchair. The rejection of his latest project by a television executive is causing him to reflect on his career. In addition to his career problems, Mauro also deals with his separation from Ángela (Aline Kuppenheim), a journalist who works at a newspaper; an abandoned teenage son, Daniel (Víctor Quezada), who begins to struggle with changes as a teenager; and a sexually dissatisfied girlfriend, Valeria Sánchez (Fernanda Urrejola), a younger woman who has a communications consulting company.

At fifty years old, the only possibility he sees of changing his situation is to invest the profits from his past ten years of stardom doing celebrity journalism, and to establish an online journalism site that fearlessly confronts the powerful of Chile. He clings to the possibility of working with Patricia Fuenzalida (Catalina Saavedra), a widely respected professional journalist who writes an independent blog, a platform she uses to unmask corrupt entrepreneurs. However, she rejects him again and again, disenchanted with his lack of professional ethics. In the midst of his desperate attempts to change her mind, she dies in a strange assault on a supermarket.

Mauro's instinct tells him that something else is hiding behind the supposed stray bullet (bala loca) that ended the journalist's life. Thus, he turns to Oscar (Mateo Iribarren), Patricia's husband, to help him discover what the journalist was investigating. Finally it is Víctor (Nicolás Durán), her son, who gives him the folders holding the murdered journalist's investigation. Thus, Eugenio 'Coco' Aldunate (Alfredo Castro), a powerful businessman who owns a health insurance company, becomes the main suspect. The magnate maintains political ties with Julián Torres Becker (Marcial Tagle), a liberal and progressive senator from the PPD who is a close friend of Murillo. Aldunate is also the main suspect of Nelson Iturra (Pablo Schwarz), a police investigator who takes the case of the reporter's death.

Mauro assembles a new team: Gabriela Vuskovic (Trinidad González), an experienced journalist and a demanding leader; Antonia Serrano (Ingrid Isensee), a journalist who worked at the newspaper with Murillo's ex-wife, but left her comfortable job to do more challenging journalism; Andrés Villanueva (Mario Horton), a journalist with technology skills, highly committed to justice and truth; and Alejandra Mujica (Manuela Oyarzún), a young professional with a reporter's nose, whose tenacity makes her a daring investigator. Mauro announces the premise on which their new EnGuardia.cl website is founded: Is it possible that in today's Chile a journalist is killed for investigating the powerful?

Production

In 2014, the series produced by Filmosonido was awarded the grant of the National Television Council of Chile,[5] worth CLP$437,914,700 (US in 2014), for its production.[6] Recording occurred from January 11 to April 23, 2016.[7]

Cast

Main

Recurring

Guests

Cameos

Awards and nominations

YearAwardCategoryNomineesResult
2016Copihue de OroBest TV series or miniseries
2017Caleuche AwardsBest leading actressFernanda Urrejola
Best leading actorAlejandro Goic
Best supporting actressAline Küppenheim
Manuela Oyarzún
Trinidad González
Best supporting actorNicolás Durán
Pablo Schwarz
Marcial Tagle
Pulsar AwardsBest musicJuan Cristóbal Meza
Platino AwardsBest Ibero-American film miniseries or teleseries
Fénix AwardsBest acting ensemble
Peabody Award[8] Entertainment

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://www.fotech.cl/tag/entero-quebrado Entero Quebrado en Fotech
  2. http://www.emol.com/noticias/Espectaculos/2016/06/24/809480/Protagonista-y-creador-de-Bala-loca-hablan-de-la-serie-que-busca-Levantar-la-vara-de-calidad-en-la-TV.html Protagonista y creador de "Bala loca" hablan de la serie que busca "levantar la vara de calidad en la TV"
  3. Web site: Alejandro Goic y Aline Kuppenheim encabezan elenco de Entero Quebrado . 2019-10-18 . 2015-11-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151121033551/http://www.latercera.com/noticia/entretencion/2015/11/661-656732-9-alejandro-goic-y-aline-kuppenheim-encabezan-elenco-de-entero-quebrado.shtml . dead .
  4. http://www.emol.com/noticias/Espectaculos/2016/07/01/810490/Asi-fue-el-debut-de-Bala-loca-la-nueva-serie-de-Chilevision.html Así fue el debut de "Bala loca", la nueva serie de Chilevisión
  5. Web site: Entero Quebrado es la gran ganadora de CNTV 2014 . 2019-10-18 . 2019-10-18 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191018055836/https://www.cntv.cl/entero-quebrado-ganador-fondo-cntv-2014/cntv/2014-09-30/124721.html . dead .
  6. https://archive.today/20160705005323/http://teleseriescl.blogspot.cl/2016/04/las-series-que-prepara-chilevision.html Las series que prepara Chilevisión
  7. Web site: Serie de Chilevisión protagonizada por Alejandro Goic finaliza grabaciones . 2019-10-18 . 2016-07-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160715124603/http://teleseriescl.blogspot.cl/2016/04/serie-de-chilevision-protagonizada-por.html . dead .
  8. News: Bala Loca. 2018-07-01. en.