Fisher Stevens Teams With Sonoro To Launch Audio Imprint & Slate Of Podcast Documentaries

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EXCLUSIVE: Fisher Stevens, director of documentaries such as The Cove and Before The Flood, and his investigative journalist partners Steve Fishman and Dax-Devlon Ross have teamed with podcast company Sonoro.Stevens and Fishman’s Orbit Media will develop a slate of three podcast documentaries with Sonoro and create an audio imprint.Sonoro is the company behind podcasts such as Toxicomania, which is being adapted as a feature film for Paramount+ and Tejana, a true-crime podcast that is being adapted for television by Stephanie Beatriz.The Sonoro x Orbit partnership will launch podcast docs first in Spanish then translate into other languages before being used as IP for other projects such as TV and film.The first of the slate is Avenger / Skyvan, true story about Miriam Lewin, a survivor of the Argentine dictatorship’s concentration camps who set out to bring her torturers to justice – and succeeded.The series is now in production in English and Spanish and uncovers long-buried truths about a country’s dark past.

But at its core, Avenger is an account of one woman’s experience at the hands of a ruthless dictatorship and her relentless struggle to hold the regime accountable.“Great audio stories have no boundaries,” said Stevens, who stars in HBO’s Succession and is best known for starring in the Short Circuit movies. “This podcast, Avenger, is one of those, a story that will grip audiences not just in the US but around the world, and not just in audio, but also on the screen.”“By pairing Sonoro’s track record of creating culturally relevant, bilingual nonfiction podcasts with Fisher Stevens’ experience producing Oscar-winning documentaries, we have developed a slate of investigative series that shine a light on some of