Gonzalo Maza, Co-Scribe of Oscar Winner ‘A Fantastic Woman,’ Joins Carola Fuentes, Marcela Said on ‘I Don’t Want to Say Goodbye’ (EXCLUSIVE)

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John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent In a notable prestige project package from Chile, Gonzalo Maza, co-writer of Sebastian Lelio’s Academy Award-winning “A Fantastic Woman,” has boarded “I Don’t Know How to Say Goodbye,” a drama thriller non-fiction series to be directed by Carola Fuentes and produced by Rafael Valdeavellano, re-teaming after their collaboration as co-writers and directors on the admired “Chicago Boys,” (2015) and “Breaking the Brick” (2022).

Both doc features were nuanced studies of the impact of Chicago school of Neoliberal thought on standard economic policy in Augusto Pinochet’s Chile. “Goodbye” turns on another often deleterious mindset, the highly codified and often cruel power dynamics seen in the online representation of fellow high school students.

Set up at the partners’ La Ventana Cine in Santiago de Chile, “I Don’t Want to Say Goodbye,” now in development, is executive produced by director Marcela Said (“Los Perros,” 2017), who has helmed episodes of “Gangs of London,” (2022), “Lupin” (2021) and “Narcos” (2o2o).

It forms part of a large package of projects being brought onto the market at Ventana Sur by promotion agency Cinemachile and Chile’s Consejo National de Television (CNTV), the latter as part of the ever expanding VS section SoloSerieS.