‘Plaza Catedral’ Director Abner Benaim, Chile’s Daniela Vega and Alfredo Castro Board Fiction Series ‘School of the Americas’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Sep 7, 2026 4:57am PT ‘Plaza Catedral’ Director Abner Benaim, Chile’s Daniela Vega and Alfredo Castro Board Fiction Series ‘School of the Americas’ (EXCLUSIVE)

The project has been selected for the Co-Production and Financing Forum at Madrid-based confab Iberseries & Platino Industria which takes place Sept. 29-Oct. 2

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'School of the Americas' Courtesy of La Panda and Seedling Media

Panama’s Abner Benaim has boarded as a co-director of the fiction series “School of the Americas” (“Escuela de las Américas”), which will star two of Chile’s most internationally renowned thespians: Daniela Vega, who headed the Oscar-winning “A Fantastic Woman,) and Alfredo Castro, a Pablo Larrain regular who’s also starred in a slew of Latin American projects.

The project has been selected for the Co-Production and Financing Forum at Madrid-based confab Iberseries & Platino Industria which takes place Sept. 29-Oct. 2.

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