Bala Loca

''Bala Loca'' (originally ''Entero Quebrado'') is a Chilean television series created by Marcos de Aguirre and David Miranda and produced by Filmosonido for Chilevisión. ''Bala loca'' means "stray bullet".

The series revolves around an investigation by a disabled journalist, Mauro Murillo ( Alejandro Goic), and features a cast with both established actors including Alfredo Castro, Aline Kuppenheim, Julio Milostich, Catalina Saavedra, Pablo Schwarz, Ingrid Isensee, as well as younger actors such as Fernanda Urrejola, Mario Horton and Lucas Bolvarán.

The production was the recipient of the annual grant from Chile's National Television Council in 2014. It premiered on television on July 4, 2016. The first season ended on September 4, 2016, with a double episode.

Plot

The main protagonist is Mauro Murillo (Alejandro Goic). After fighting the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, he became a celebrity journalist, a fact which some of his colleagues still do not forgive. At the peak of his career, he suffered a car accident that left him in a wheelchair. The rejection of his latest project by a television executive is causing him to reflect on his career. In addition to his career problems, Mauro also deals with his separation from Ángela (Aline Kuppenheim), a journalist who works at a newspaper; an abandoned teenage son, Daniel (Víctor Quezada), who begins to struggle with changes as a teenager; and a sexually dissatisfied girlfriend, Valeria Sánchez (Fernanda Urrejola), a younger woman who has a communications consulting company.

At fifty years old, the only possibility he sees of changing his situation is to invest the profits from his past ten years of stardom doing celebrity journalism, and to establish an online journalism site that fearlessly confronts the powerful of Chile. He clings to the possibility of working with Patricia Fuenzalida (Catalina Saavedra), a widely respected professional journalist who writes an independent blog, a platform she uses to unmask corrupt entrepreneurs. However, she rejects him again and again, disenchanted with his lack of professional ethics. In the midst of his desperate attempts to change her mind, she dies in a strange assault on a supermarket.

Mauro's instinct tells him that something else is hiding behind the supposed stray bullet (''bala loca'') that ended the journalist's life. Thus, he turns to Oscar (Mateo Iribarren), Patricia's husband, to help him discover what the journalist was investigating. Finally it is Víctor (Nicolás Durán), her son, who gives him the folders holding the murdered journalist's investigation. Thus, Eugenio 'Coco' Aldunate (Alfredo Castro), a powerful businessman who owns a health insurance company, becomes the main suspect. The magnate maintains political ties with Julián Torres Becker (Marcial Tagle), a liberal and progressive senator from the PPD who is a close friend of Murillo. Aldunate is also the main suspect of Nelson Iturra (Pablo Schwarz), a police investigator who takes the case of the reporter's death.

Mauro assembles a new team: Gabriela Vuskovic (Trinidad González), an experienced journalist and a demanding leader; Antonia Serrano (Ingrid Isensee), a journalist who worked at the newspaper with Murillo's ex-wife, but left her comfortable job to do more challenging journalism; Andrés Villanueva (Mario Horton), a journalist with technology skills, highly committed to justice and truth; and Alejandra Mujica (Manuela Oyarzún), a young professional with a reporter's nose, whose tenacity makes her a daring investigator. Mauro announces the premise on which their new ''EnGuardia.cl'' website is founded: Is it possible that in today's Chile a journalist is killed for investigating the powerful?

Production

In 2014, the series produced by Filmosonido was awarded the grant of the National Television Council of Chile,
worth CLP$437,914,700 (US in 2014), for its production. Recording occurred from January 11 to April 23, 2016.

Cast

Main

* Alejandro Goic as ''Mauro Murillo''
* Trinidad González as ''Gabriela Vuskovic''
* Ingrid Isensee as ''Antonia Serrano''
* Mario Horton as ''Andrés Villanueva''
* Manuela Oyarzún as ''Alejandra Mujica''
* Fernanda Urrejola as ''Valeria Sánchez''
* Catalina Saavedra as ''Patricia Fuenzalida''
* Pablo Schwarz as ''Nelson Iturra''
* Aline Kuppenheim as ''Ángela Schmidt''
* Marcial Tagle as ''Julián Torres Becker''
* Víctor Quezada as ''Daniel Murillo''
* Alfredo Castro as ''Eugenio "Coco" Aldunate''
* Roberto Farías as ''Alexis Vilches''

Recurring

* Nicolás Durán as ''Víctor Paredes Fuenzalida''
* Mateo Iribarren as ''Óscar Paredes''
* Julio Milostich as ''General Larrondo''
* Willy Semler as ''General Arismendi''
* Hugo Medina as ''Julio Osorio''
* Erto Pantoja as ''Oliverio Farías''
* Iván Álvarez de Araya as ''Agustín''
* María Paz Grandjean as ''Mariana Lobos''
* Víctor Montero as ''Félix Morales''
* Sebastián Ayala as ''Technician''
* Luis Uribe as ''Rapist''
* Daniel Candia as ''Mario Palazzo, Hitman''
* Simón Pascal as ''Assailant''
* Francisco Ossa as ''Daniel's School Inspector''
* Gaspar Rosson as ''Felipe''
* Benjamín Westfall as ''Supermarket Guard''
* Mario Ossandón as ''Aldunate's Lawyer''
* Lucas Bolvarán as ''Rodrigo''
* Rodrigo Soto as ''Uncle Carlos''
* Alex Draper as ''Peter''
* Román Wilson as ''Dylan''
* Thomas Bentin as ''Mikael Ivelic''
* Christián Farías as ''Secuaz''

Guests

* Pablo Cerda as ''Fabio''
* Alejandro Sieveking as ''Pedro Cisneros''
* Michael Silva as ''Joel Medina''
* Boris Quercia as ''César Fantini''
* Celine Reymond as ''Juliana''
* Sergio Hernández as ''Mr. Murillo''
* Eyal Meyer as ''Man X''
* Pablo Striano as ''Pelao Fernández''
* Ximena Rivas as ''Luisa Arismendi''
* Andrea Martínez as ''Commentator''
* Javiera Torres as ''Victoria "Vicky"''
* Jack Arama as ''Doctor Materán''
* Daniela Torres as ''Reporter''
* Laura Olazábal as ''Shooting Club Secretary''
* Rodrigo Lisboa as ''Forensic Technician''
* Elvis Fuentes as ''Ramírez''
* Silvana Hardy as ''Marta''
* Vittorio Yaconi as ''Pablo Miller''
* Andrés Rillón as ''YouTube Journalist''
* Eugenio González as ''TV Politician''
* Eduardo Squella as ''TV Politician''
* Ignacio Santa Cruz as ''Ricardo Rojas''
* Manuel Peña as ''Hugo Céspedes''
* Eduardo de Aguirre as ''Juez Rómulo''
* Carlos Isensee as ''Judge Radic''
* Eugenio Ahumada as ''Judge''
* Gabriela Calvete as ''Sound Technician''
* Rafael de la Reguera as ''Cameraman''
* Nikolás Bottinelli as ''Dealer''
* Cristián Quezada as ''Tito Almeyda''
* Iván Parra as ''Mateo''
* Renato Illanes as ''Juan Molina''
* Katy Cabezas as ''Lorena Pérez''
* Carlos Donoso as ''Guard''
* David Miranda as ''Prosecutor Awad''
* Edinson Díaz as ''Taxi Driver''
* Pesquinel Martínez as ''Executive''
* Diego Thompson as ''Government Person''
* Marcial Edwards as ''Congressional Officer''
* Antonia Krug as ''Casandra''
* Renata Goiri as ''Martina''
* Joseff Messmer as ''Manuel''

Cameos

* Sergio Campos
* Francisca García-Huidobro
* Felipe Vidal
* Carolina de Moras
* Claudia Schmidt
* Kika Silva
* Paulina Rojas
* Botota Fox
* Macarena Pizarro
* Karina Alvárez
* Karim Butte

Awards and nominations

References

External links

Official site of ''Bala Loca''


in the video library of the National Television Council.

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2016 in Chilean television
Chilevisión original programming