Amazon Prime Video and La Corriente del Golfo, Diego Luna y Gael García Bernal´s production company, announce their first collaboration: Pan y Circo (Bread & Circus). The Amazon Original series presents an innovative and rarely seen format: using the ritual of sharing a meal as a space to converse and bring together different points of view. The conversations, moderated by the Mexican actor and filmmaker Diego Luna, bring together politicians, activists and different personalities to approach fundamental issues of universal interest in contemporary societies, accompanied by menus from renowned chefs in Mexico.

Composed of seven episodes, the series travels through Baja California, Puebla, Quintana Roo and Mexico City, bringing a different topic to the table to discuss among the guests. Pan y Circo opens the conversation about controversial issues in an intimate and honest context, bringing together opposing points of view and positions that on several occasions end up in closer agreement.

The series’ themes include: gender violence and femicide; the climate crisis; the decriminalization of abortion; racism and identity; the legalization of drugs; immigration and finally, COVID-19 in a remote episode carried out while quarantining through various virtual interviews.

The voices that fuel the conversations include national policy makers, Nobel Laureates, film, music or literature professionals, women and men of science, and even an astronaut. All of them talk, discuss, fight and reconcile while sharing bread, wine and their own experiences. Among the guests featured in Pan y Circo are: Gael Garcia Bernal; the Interior Secretary of Mexico´s government, Olga Sánchez Cordero; Dr. Hugo López-Gatell Ramírez, Undersecretary of Prevention and Health Promotion for the Government of Mexico; the former president of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos; actor Ana de la Reguera; musician and activist Rubén Albarrán; singer Li Saumet; the Mixe soprano Maria Reyna; Bi-National Front of Indigenous Organizations activist, Odilia Romero; and defender of the environment, Julia Caravias, among others.

For their part, the chefs who feed the guests at the table in each of the episodes include: Enrique Olvera (Pujol), Elena Reygadas (Rosetta), Alexander Suastegui (Itinerant Chef), Javier Plascencia (Animalón), Jair Téllez (Merotoro) and Alejandra Barbabosa (Recaudo).

Pan y Circo was created by Diego Luna and produced by La Corriente del Golfo. The series premieres exclusively on Amazon Prime Video on August 7, 2020, and Prime Video customers in more than 200 countries and territories able to enjoy new episodes each week.