Argentine auteur Paula Hernández, helmer of “The Sleepwalkers” and “Las siamesas,” is attached to direct and co-write project series “Duarte. Evita behind the Icon,” produced by Buenos Aires-based powerhouse Kapow, the associate producer on Fabula-Fremantle hit drama “La Jauría.”

In development, and scheduled for a 2025 second-half shoot, “Duarte” is structured as a 5 episode, 60 minute series, based on the early youth of legendary Eva Duarte – better known as Evita – the second wife of Argentine president Juan Domingo Perón.

“Duarte” is one of the projects participating at the 2024 Co-Production and Financing Forum, taking place Oct. 1-2 in Madrid, as part of the fourth edition of Iberseries & Platino Industria event.

Produced by Kapow co-founders Agustín Sacanell, Lucas Rainelli and Diego Ventura, the company’s head of scripted development, the series aims to be a journey through Duarte’s personal story and, at the same time, through Argentina during those years which, just like Eva,...