Prime Video trusts The Mediapro Studio for 'Romancero'

100 Reply (The Mediapro Studio) produce Romance, new original Prime Video whose filming has just begun in Almería.

Romance is presented as a horror story with supernatural overtones fast-paced written by the author and screenwriter Fernando Navarro (Venus, Veronica) and directed by Tomas Pena, member of the collective Manson. This project, composed of six half-hour episodes whose action takes place in a single night, it represents Peña's first foray into a fiction production after directing music videos for artists such as Rosalía, C. Tangana, Katy Perry, Raw Alejandro, Bad Gyal and Prodigy.

For this fiction, Navarro and Peña They have drawn on sources such as comics, Gothic literature, stories of witches, ghosts and creatures, the poetry of Federico García Lorca or esotericism, all in the enveloping setting of a desert and cruel South, where the topics of rural Spain and more cane coexist with creatures. supernatural, ghostly apparitions, violence, revenge, redemption and love. It represents the first production that arises from The Mediapro Studio Labs, Mediapro's ideas factory for new creators.”

For distribution, Romance has opted to bring together young promises and established names from the cinema and television. The series is starring young people Sasha Cocola (Roof and food, Paco's men) and the actress of Serbian origin Elena Matic, which debuts in Spain in a fiction series. The cast is completed by Ricardo Gómez (The substitute, The route, Tell me how it happened), Guillermo Toledo (Midas' Favorites, Perfect Crime, 7 Lives), and Goya Award winner Belén Cuesta (The infinite trench, Paquita Salas, The call). The Argentine actress Julieta Cardinali (The Kingdom, Maradona: Blessed Dream, The rich do not ask permission) and the special participation of Alba Flores (The paper house, Vis a Vis).

This is the synopsis of Romance, fiction that Alejandro Florez, general director of 100 Reply, points out that it is one of the most ambitious productions of 100 Balas thanks to a “very high level” of post-production y special effects: "Cornelia is a girl whose childhood has been stolen. Jordan is not a child, nor a man. They are two helpless young people who escape from the forces of the law, from powerful supernatural creatures and from themselves. Romancero is the story of this escape, of the pursued and the pursuers, framed in a desert and cruel Andalusia, as real as it is mythical, during a nightmarish night plagued by demons, witches and blood drinkers."