HBO Max Psycho Thriller ‘Infamy,’ With ‘She Walks in Darkness’ Star Susana Abaitua, Set for South Festival Premiere — SkimNews
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- Infamy launches at the South International Series Festival in Cádiz as a psychological thriller adapted from Ledicia Costas’s book and produced by Evafilms.
- HBO Max acquired Infamy for a TV window in Spain, the streamer’s first such acquisition, and will premiere the six-episode series on Nov. 13.
- Susana Abaitua stars as Emma Cruz, a tenacious lawyer who takes on the unsolved disappearance of two girls from her hometown 20 years ago and uses the case to work through guilt over her sister’s death.
- Agustina Macri directed the first two episodes to establish Infamy’s world, characters, relationships and central mysteries, building atmosphere before the plot advances.
- Beatriz Sanchís took over directing from episode 3, as the investigation advanced and tensions intensified; the directors aimed to preserve a consistent visual language, atmosphere and tone.
- Bizkaia’s difficult physical and climatic conditions became part of Infamy’s atmosphere, with the locations supplying isolation and intensity that Macri said would have been difficult to recreate artificially.
- Agustina Macri said Infamy was designed to generate suspense from Emma’s secrets, emotional wounds and inner world, not from the missing-girls mystery alone.
Why it matters: For HBO Max, the six-episode project is its first TV-window acquisition in Spain and pairs a South festival launch with a Nov. 13 premiere led by Goya nominee Susana Abaitua. The directors’ handoff between episodes 1–2 and episode 3 onward gives the thriller a deliberate shift from atmospheric character setup to an investigation that gains momentum.
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