Leonardo Padrón: We must celebrate that in Latin America there is more bold, fresh and irreverent content every day

For Leonardo Padrón, author, screenwriter and creator of Pálpito, it is worth celebrating that in Latin America there is “more bold, fresher and irreverent content every day.” Padrón, who is currently at Iberseries to participate in a talk and a workshop for showrunners and creators where he will sharing his experience with Pálpito, considers that Latin American drama has a lot to say, given its status as a new world and of its social and political context.

Asked about his experience with Pálpito, which is currently recording its second season in Bogotá, Colombia, and that will debut in early 2023, he highlights that “it has been a life-changer in terms of what my career in the TV industry has been. Personally, it marks a before and after because there is a change in codes and narrative territories, because one thing is to write for open TV and another for streaming, which has its own codes and game marked by creative freedom and innovation, the risk capacity of taking risks, which in linear TV is always much fenced by the limits imposed by that medium.”

He indicated that one of the benefits of streaming is the diversity of genres and themes, including the possibility of making multi-genre content. “Pálpito is proof of that. It is a content that integrates elements of a thriller, melodrama, suspense, including fiction with esoteric bits. I believe that the public likes to lean out a window that offers multiple possibilities, that answers to the different states of mind of the consumer”.

Padrón said that his inspiration is work. “The blank page, the hands on the keyboard and the muse, above all, is the human condition”, he concluded.