The Chilean director and screenwriter Hernán Caffiero, winner of the 2018 International Emmy for ‘A Necessary Story’, presented this Wednesday the trailer for ‘Raza brava’, a series with which he tries to go to the “genesis” of violence in the world of football based on a real event that occurred around the ‘White Claw’, the ultra fans of the Colo Colo team
Caffiero, who already made the documentary ‘Raza brava’ in 2008, presented the trailer for the series, which will premiere in 2026, at the fifth edition of Iberseries & Platino Industria, an event on Ibero-American audiovisuals that takes place in Madrid until Friday.
Accompanied by some of his producers, Caffiero explained that ‘Raza brava’ is based on a real case: “It is based on an image that went around the world in 2000, in the Colo Colo stadium. An image that, when YouTube did not exist, became a global icon of violence in stadiums.”
“A guy, in a Dantesque scene, stabs another guy in the gallery,” recalled the director, screenwriter and producer.
From that image, and within this project that “was born a long, long time ago,” Caffiero went to visit the main character of the series in prison, to “talk with him” and “understand the logic that had determined his actions.”
“We wanted to unravel what led him to that. We began to realize that these characters, both of whom had had this conflict, had known each other 20 years ago and had been friends all their lives,” commented the filmmaker.
‘Raza brava’ tells the story of friendship and betrayal of two friends who, when they grow up, enter the Colo Colo bar, where they face a world of violence and excess. After the death of the historic leader, the rise of one of them unleashes the envy of the other, who betrays him.
The final confrontation breaks out in the stadium.
With this argument, a series is presented that takes place during the last years of Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship and the first decade of the return to democracy in Chile, and that portrays a “marginal” world that sees the soccer stands as its “only place of belonging.”
Need to address violence in football
Caffiero said that they wanted to give “depth” to the project, building the characters “from a much more social and unprejudiced sense regarding this topic,” he added, alluding to violence in the world of football.
A theme that, furthermore, “is still in vogue.”
“Without going any further, this year, in Chile, the fans in which this reality is portrayed had an important tragedy: two children died,” Caffiero recalled the incident that occurred last April at the Monumental stadium in Santiago.
The filmmaker believes that today there is still a “need” as a “society,” not only in Chile but worldwide, to “deal with the issue of violence in football,” but “not from the final consequence,” but “from its genesis, from its causes.”
“That was necessary to portray,” Caffiero noted.
For Javier Esteban, from The Mediapro Studio, ‘Raza brava’ is a “timeless” story that addresses “universal themes such as passion, family, loyalty or identity”, all linked through football, “one of the most universal sports”.
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