Newen Studios-Owned iZen Launches Spanish Investigative Docs Producer CAPA Spain With Journalist Tomás Ocaña

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Newen Studios’ Spanish divison iZen has launched documentary producer CAPA Spain with Emmy and Peabody-winning director and journalist Tomás Ocaña.CAPA Spain will work to develop international documentaries in Spain and the wider Hispanic market.Investigative journalist Ocaña is known for docu-series such as Lucy in the Spiderweb, which was Spanish national television streamer RTVEPlay and selected to premiere on the 24th Malaga Festival in 2021.He has also participated in major investigative journalism projects such as the Panama Papers and the Swiss Leaks and many of his stories focus on rime, gambling, corruption, drug trafficking, environmental destruction, labor exploitation and fraud.

As such, he was worked on drama projects such as Netflix’s El Chapo.Since 2017, Ocaña has led his own production boutique called The Facto Productions, based in Madrid and Miami to tell general interest stories that others can’t or won’t reveal.

He uses English-language production techniques and narratives in his programs.Ocaña recently won an Ondas Award for GAL, the Triangle, an investigative podcast he is now converting into a docu-series.“CAPA Spain was born to tell the best stories by combining the rigor of journalism and the narrative of fiction,” Ocaña. “It is meant to be a guarantee of quality, rigor and fast-paced storytelling to produce highly relevant docu-series.

It is an honor to join Newen Studios with the aim of taking non-fiction and documentary formats to the next level in our country.