Bala Loca

FMMC Assistant Professor David Miranda Hardy presents episode one of his recently released TV series, Bala Loca (Stray Bullet). The show finished airing in September in CHV, a Turner-owned Chilean network, to critical aclaim.

Bala Loca centers on Mauro Murillo, a 50-year ¬old journalist with a past as an investigative reporter during the Chilean dictatorship. In the transition to democracy Murillo grew attracted to the glamour of entertainment television and found substantial fame and economic success. But after an accident forces him to use a wheelchair, the celebrity world abandons him and his life as a party-¬loving playboy comes to an end. We meet Murillo three years later, in 2016, as he tries to repair his life and career. Rather than return to the vapid world of celebrity gossip, he starts an independent digital news outlet aimed at investigating cases of corruption. When his star reporter dies as a bystander of a supermarket robbery, Murillo and his team suspect foul play and the event triggers a whodunit where Bala Loca explores contemporary Chilean Society ailments: the distrust of institutions and businesses, the dark connections of money and politics, the remains of authoritarian enclaves within our armed forces and the social upheavals provoked by increased inequality.

The screening will be followed by a conversation moderated by FMMC Professor Jason Mittell.
Bala Loca S01E01 - HD - Color - Dolby Digital - 54 min - In Spanish with English subtitles.