Isaki Lacuesta, Isa Campo, Cristóbol Garrido Drill Down on Searing Berlin CoPro Series Entry ‘The Chauffeur’s Son’

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Holly Jones The stars are aligning on political thriller “The Chauffeur’s Son,” a six-part series from acclaimed Spanish creative duo Isaki Lacuesta and Isa Campo.

It is one of five projects that has pulled down a muscular €1.5 million ($1.6 million) grant from Catalonia’s ICEC film-TV aimed at ensuring potential production partners that the series can bring series money to the table.

It comes after the two which won two Golden Shells at San Sebastian, for “The Double Steps” (2011) and “Between Two Waters” (2018), have demonstrated their chops for directing broad audience drama series, directing and in Campo’s case writing two episodes in Movistar+’s series “Offworld,” a Variety 2022 Best International TV Series.     “Elite’s” Zeta Studios is producing “The Chauffeur’s Daughter.” It has also been selected to compete at this year’s Berlinale Series Market’s Co-Pro Series, one of Europe’s foremost drama series project showcases.

It hits the pitching session on Feb. 21 as one of its buzz projects, and days after Lacuesta and Campo won a best adapted screenplay Goya for Berlin Competition player “One Year, One Night.” The title draws from the best-selling novel penned frenetically by Jordi Amat, following insatiable journalist Alfons Quintà, who cozied up to the elite and directed the Catalan public broadcasting network TV3 during former president Jordi Pujol’s tainted rule in Catalonia.