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Enjoy A Dinner with Diego Luna For His Amazon Original Series, Pan y Cinco
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- Published: Tuesday, 07 July 2020 14:38
Amazon Prime Video and Diego Luna are serving up some delicious dishes and hard hitting discussions for "Pan y Circo," a new series created by Diego Luna through his production company with bestie Gael García Bernal. He invites his celebrity friends like Bernal to dinner prepared by renowned Mexican chefs. Dinner topics will include politics, activism and the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Amazon Original 7-part series premieres exclusively on Prime Video on August 7, 2020 in Mexico and more than 200 countries and territories around the world. "Pan y Cinco" which translates to "Bread & Circus" is Amazon Prime Video and Luna and Bernal´s La Corriente del Golfo first collaboration.
Aside from Bernal, other guests include the Interior Secretary of Mexico´s government, Olga Sánchez Cordero; Dr. Hugo López-Gatell Ramírez, Undersecretary of Prevention and Health Promotion for the Government of Mexico; the former president of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos; actor Ana de la Reguera; musician and activist Rubén Albarrán; singer Li Saumet; the Mixe soprano Maria Reyna; Bi-National Front of Indigenous Organizations activist, Odilia Romero; and defender of the environment, Julia Caravias, among others.
The chefs providing the meals include: Enrique Olvera (Pujol), Elena Reygadas (Rosetta), Alexander Suastegui (Itinerant Chef), Javier Plascencia (Animalón), Jair Téllez (Merotoro) and Alejandra Barbabosa (Recaudo).
For more, see the official press release below.
MEXICO CITY—July 2, 2020—(NASDAQ: AMZN) — Amazon Prime Video and La Corriente del Golfo, Diego Luna y Gael García Bernal´s production company, announce their first collaboration: Pan y Circo (Bread & Circus). The Amazon Original series presents an innovative and rarely seen format: using the ritual of sharing a meal as a space to converse and bring together different points of view. The conversations, moderated by the Mexican actor and filmmaker Diego Luna, bring together politicians, activists and different personalities to approach fundamental issues of universal interest in contemporary societies, accompanied by menus from renowned chefs in Mexico.
Composed of seven episodes, the series travels through Baja California, Puebla, Quintana Roo and Mexico City, bringing a different topic to the table to discuss among the guests. Pan y Circo opens the conversation about controversial issues in an intimate and honest context, bringing together opposing points of view and positions that on several occasions end up in closer agreement.
The series’ themes include: gender violence and femicide; the climate crisis; the decriminalization of abortion; racism and identity; the legalization of drugs; immigration and finally, COVID-19 in a remote episode carried out while quarantining through various virtual interviews.
“Pan y Circo was born by trying to combine two of the things I enjoy doing most: eating and listening. The goal was to make a show about other people in every way - the other people who are guests on the show, other people who live realities different from mine, and other people who do not think like me. We listen to each other while sharing a meal, nothing more,” said Diego Luna, whose original idea spawned the series. “The table, in my life, has turned out to be the ideal place to debate, to reflect and share my worries and aspirations with others.”
“This series is as honest as it is incredibly entertaining, and we couldn’t be more excited to be working with Diego Luna to bring Pan y Circo to customers across Mexico and around the world,” said Amazon Studios series development lead, Javiera Balmaceda. “This is a fresh take on a series that creates a dialogue around some of the most important topics impacting society today, and we know Prime Video customers are going to love hearing from some of the leading names today in entertainment, politics and gastronomy.”
The voices that fuel the conversations include national policy makers, Nobel Laureates, film, music or literature professionals, women and men of science, and even an astronaut. All of them talk, discuss, fight and reconcile while sharing bread, wine and their own experiences. Among the guests featured in Pan y Circo are: Gael Garcia Bernal; the Interior Secretary of Mexico´s government, Olga Sánchez Cordero; Dr. Hugo López-Gatell Ramírez, Undersecretary of Prevention and Health Promotion for the Government of Mexico; the former president of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos; actor Ana de la Reguera; musician and activist Rubén Albarrán; singer Li Saumet; the Mixe soprano Maria Reyna; Bi-National Front of Indigenous Organizations activist, Odilia Romero; and defender of the environment, Julia Caravias, among others.
For their part, the chefs who feed the guests at the table in each of the episodes include: Enrique Olvera (Pujol), Elena Reygadas (Rosetta), Alexander Suastegui (Itinerant Chef), Javier Plascencia (Animalón), Jair Téllez (Merotoro) and Alejandra Barbabosa (Recaudo).
Pan y Circo was created by Diego Luna and produced by La Corriente del Golfo. The series premieres exclusively on Amazon Prime Video on August 7, 2020, and Prime Video customers in more than 200 countries and territories able to enjoy new episodes each week.
Pan y Circo is the latest Amazon Original series announced by Prime Video for Mexico, and joins a growing list of popular and critically acclaimed local series, De Viaje con los Derbez, El Presidente, Diablo Guardian, LOL: Last One Laughing, Un Extraño Enemigo and El Juego de las Llaves, along with other successful Amazon Originals series worldwide, including Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, The Boys, Good Omens, Carnival Row and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.