“Tell the story” of El Comercio: this was the interview with Gonzalo Torres and Bryan Albornoz on Canal N

After a successful first season that featured eight captivating stories from the El Comercio Archive, by passionate researcher and artist Gonzalo Torres, the miniseries “Tell the story” returns with renewed energy in its second installment. This time, the series will have twelve new episodes that will premiere this Sunday 27 at 5:00 p.m. through the newspaper’s digital channels, and on Monday 28 at 10:00 p.m. on Canal N.

The new stage opens with a story that relives the confrontation between the writer José Santos Chocano and the journalist Edwin Elmore, a story that had a surprising outcome at the headquarters of El Comercio. In contrast to the previous season, the recording team, in collaboration with Gonzalo Torres, presents an even more ambitious proposal. “We have raised the quality of the content and the script. We work with a phenomenal team committed to presenting this type of innovative content.”, affirmed Torres in an interview with Canal N. The director Bryan Albornoz, who also appears in some scenes with the actor, supports this statement: “We have become so immersed in the story that we also participate in some stories to infuse them with more life and color”.

An exciting novelty is the addition of up to four new characters, in contrast to the two from the first season, who were previously played solely by the popular Gonzalete. “We will have more characters that will present in an even more vibrant way the stories that we are sharing.”, advances Albornoz. In addition, the use of graphic material elaborated by hand by Carlos Mayo and the application of artificial intelligence to improve the resolution of images, adding color to old photographs and giving life to the characters through photographic animations, are highlighted.

Historical importance

“Memory is fragile and life is very short, many things are lost, that’s why this file and the program that shows this is important”, Torres mentions, referring to an episode in which they will deal with an ancient epidemic that devastated Peru. “History repeats itself, just as there are people who deny the covid, there are also people who did not believe in the bubonic plague”, adds the actor, evoking the well-known phrase: “The country that does not learn from its past is doomed to repeat it”.

It is essential to highlight that the main objective of this series is to give new value to archived stories that previously lacked an adequate space to be presented to a multimedia audience, where stories can go from paper to a format accessible on various devices. In their search to find a suitable format for everyone, the team made up of Luis Jacobo, José Manuel Romero, Alejandro Infante, Nelson Tadeo, Carlos Hidalgo, Antonio Álvarez, Katty Llerena, Jean Pierre Andonaire, Carlos Mayo, Mónica Panta and Bryan Albornoz found in the miniseries “Tell the Story” a vision they support. “It is very interesting what can be discovered and, above all, when talking with the director, we have understood the importance that it has in the present”, affirms Torres, who prepares the first drafts of the scripts for each episode.

“This project was born with the intention of showing the El Comercio Archive, a very valuable source that gives us a perspective on the history of Peru through the work of editors and photographers.”, comments the artist, who immersed himself in different perspectives of the old journalistic notes that cover 184 years of the country’s history. “They are stories that the public can know as news, but in those notes there are also layers of extremely interesting information, since they are surrounded by anecdotes that also deserve to be told.”, he concludes.