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Max
, the platform heir to
HBO Max
that will arrive in Spain this spring, announced this Monday the new project by
Leticia Dolera
.
Set in the middle of summer and in the cultural context of the Catalan castle tradition,
Pubertat
will be a family drama that explores the weight of taboo and psychological inheritance transmitted from generation to generation.
Leticia Dolera
is the creator of this six-episode series that
she will direct and perform
.
Filming will take place this summer on locations in
Catalonia
and will premiere in 2025 on
Max
.
The harmony of a community is truncated by a report of sexual assault on social networks that points to three teenagers as culprits," reads the synopsis made public by Max. The adults in charge of those accused, as aggressors and as victims, will have to deal with the tension of the situation and confront their own relationship with sexuality. In the process they will discover that perhaps not only traditions are passed down from generation to generation, but also taboos and traumas.
The series questions whether a 13-year-old child can be a sexual offender
and, if so, whose responsibility would it be: the child, the family or society.
At the same time, the story explores parent-child relationships and how these, whether we like it or not, also constitute us.
In the words of
Leticia Dolera
: "In puberty, sexuality and the changes in our body go through us and make us vulnerable. In a social context where on the one hand everything is pornified and objectified and on the other sex and intimacy continue to be a taboo,
how do adolescents approach something as intimate and radical as sexuality?
How do we, adults, do it? Are we prepared to accompany them? That is why I have written
Pubertat
, to share all these concerns and try to shed some light on this topic.
And he adds: "To tell this story I have chosen the visual and metaphorical force of the castellera tradition.
Pubertat
speaks of the legacy between generations, between fathers and mothers and their sons and daughters, both on a cultural, emotional or psychological level; also of how Tradition and progress coexist today with a certain tension. That is why it seemed to me that the context of popular culture was fertile and ideal ground for the series. In addition to the team effort and the symbolic and cathartic nature of a
castle
, it attracted me to history
the naturalization of contact with the body when performing a
castell
. The body seen as something to integrate and not something to fear, hide or be ashamed of. I think that, in short, a castellera colla is like a small "Society, on a human and political level, is a mirror in which to look at ourselves."
Pubertat
is written by
Leticia Dolera
, its creator, who has had
Almudena Monzú
as co-writer of three of the six chapters of the series.
Manuel Burque
and
David Gallart
collaborated in the final stretch of the development process
.
Pubertat
, also directed by
Leticia Dolera
, will be filmed in several locations in
Catalonia
throughout 2024.