MIAMI, Oct. 7, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Throughout history,
hate and conflict have been part of the human experience. From
horrific extremes such as the Holocaust or the Rwandan genocide,
when hate has fueled mass destruction, to everyday incidents like
playground bullying or malicious trolling on social media, hate
shapes our lives in myriad ways. And while all humans have the
capacity to hate, few understand what sparks it and transforms it
into a destructive force.
Executive produced by filmmaking heavyweights Alex Gibney and Steven
Spielberg and directed by Geeta
Gandbhir and Sam Pollard
(Emmy® winners for "When The Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four
Acts"), ¿POR QUÉ ODIAMOS? explores one of humanity's most
primal and destructive emotions – hate. At the heart of this timely
series is the notion that if people begin to understand their own
minds, they can find ways to work against hate and keep it from
spreading. The six-part series will begin airing on Sunday, October 13 at 10pm E/P on Discovery en Español, with additional
episodes airing each subsequent Sunday.
State Gibney and Spielberg, "Getting to the root of the human
condition is something not only fascinating, but necessary in
understanding who we are. This is not a series that just documents
something that's happening; it's an inquiry – an attempt to
understand why we hate, through the science, and through an
understanding of our common humanity. Hate is in our DNA. If we
understand why we act the way we do, we can change the way we act.
That is what we are uniquely capable of as human beings."
Drawing on cutting-edge journalism, deep historical
investigations and ground-breaking research in psychology, biology,
and neuroscience, ¿POR QUÉ ODIAMOS? traces the evolutionary
basis of hatred and its powerful impact on individuals and
societies throughout human history. The science behind the behavior
is a powerful tool to help us understand what drives conflict,
enabling people to have real, tough conversations about these
issues and behaviors.
Helping to unpack these complex issues in each episode are
experts including cognitive scientist Laurie Santos, evolutionary anthropologist
Brian Hare, journalist and author
Jelani Cobb, extremism expert
Sasha Havlicek, international
criminal lawyer Patricia Viseur
Sellers, and neuroscientist Emile
Bruneau.
¿POR QUÉ ODIAMOS? works to contextualize the many
instances of hate in everyday life: the violent rivalries that
erupt at sports matches, the hateful rhetoric that runs rampant on
social media, and the heated disagreements that flare up over
political partisanship, race, religion, and social beliefs. The
series follows brave individuals seeking to quell violent conflict
and correct misperceptions, hears from former terrorists and
architects of genocide, and allows viewers to consider lessons from
some of the most brutal and enduring examples of hate throughout
the world.
The series also highlights the personal stories of those who
have lived a life of hatred, including a lifelong member of a hate
group whose childhood memories "are of standing on a picket line
telling people they were going to hell." The series encounters
people whose beliefs led them to commit acts of hate so severe they
ended up in jail, but who managed, finally, to disengage from those
ideologies. Along the way, it reveals contemporary links to ancient
and evolutionary behaviors and uses science as a basis for
unlocking the truth about hatred and human nature.
¿POR QUÉ ODIAMOS? is an Amblin Television and Jigsaw
Productions in association with Escape Artists for Discovery
Channel. Directed by Geeta Gandbhir
and Sam Pollard. The series is
executive produced by Alex Gibney,
Steven Spielberg, Frank Marshall, Stacey
Offman, Richard Perello,
Darryl Frank, Justin Falvey, David
McKillop, Jon Bardin,
Yael Melamede, and Erica Sashin. For Escape Artists: executive
producer, Steve Tisch; For Discovery
Channel: executive producers, Nancy
Daniels and Howard
Swartz.
About Discovery en Español
Discovery en Español
connects Spanish-speaking viewers in the U.S to the world and all
its wonder and possibilities. It provides quality programming
focusing on bold storytelling across core genres including
adventure, ingenuity, natural history, investigation and current
affairs. Created by Discovery Inc., Discovery en Español is widely
distributed on Hispanic tier packages throughout the country. It
also reaches audiences across screens on the "Discovery en Español
GO" TV Everywhere app (Android: http://bit.ly/2w6Spod iOS:
http://apple.co/2fiMNE3, Roku: https://bit.ly/2Js7LxZ and
Fire TV: https://amzn.to/2JoGT1P). For more information,
please follow us on Facebook and Instagram @discoveryenespanol.
About Discovery:
Discovery, Inc. (Nasdaq: DISCA,
DISCB, DISCK) is a global leader in real life entertainment,
serving a passionate audience of superfans around the world with
content that inspires, informs and entertains. Discovery delivers
over 8,000 hours of original programming each year and has category
leadership across deeply loved content genres around the world.
Available in 220 countries and territories and nearly 50 languages,
Discovery is a platform innovator, reaching viewers on all screens,
including TV Everywhere products such as the GO portfolio of apps;
direct-to-consumer streaming services such as Eurosport Player and
MotorTrend OnDemand; digital-first and social content from Group
Nine Media and a strategic alliance with PGA TOUR to create the
international home of golf. Discovery's portfolio of premium brands
includes Discovery Channel, HGTV, Food Network, TLC, Investigation
Discovery, Travel Channel, MotorTrend, Animal Planet, and Science
Channel, as well as OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network in the U.S.,
Discovery Kids in Latin America,
and Eurosport, the leading provider of locally relevant, premium
sports and Home of the Olympic Games across Europe. For more information, please visit
https://corporate.discovery.com/ and follow @DiscoveryIncTV across
social platforms.
About Amblin Television
Amblin Television, a long-time
leader in quality programming, is a division of Amblin Partners, a
content creation company led by Steven
Spielberg. Amblin Television's co-presidents, Darryl Frank and Justin
Falvey, oversee all development, production and programming
for the company. Amblin Television currently has thirteen projects
in various stages of production including Tommy for CBS, a
second season of Roswell, New
Mexico for the CW, The Haunting of Bly Manor – the follow-up chapter to The
Haunting of Hill House – for Netflix, Halo for Showtime,
a straight-to-series order for Brave New World from
USA Network, Amazing
Stories for Apple, Cortés and Moctezuma for Amazon,
Gremlins for HBO Max, Animaniacs for Hulu, Why We
Hate for Discovery, Resident Alien for SYFY, and the
documentary films Natalie Wood:
What Remains Behind for HBO and Laurel Canyon for Epix.
Some of Amblin Television's previous credits include the Emmy and
Golden Globe Award-winning drama The Americans for FX,
Emmy-nominated HBO movie All The Way starring Bryan Cranston, Smash for NBC, Under
the Dome for CBS, Falling Skies for TNT, The
Borgias and The United
States of Tara for Showtime, and Las Vegas for NBC.
http://www.amblin.com
About Jigsaw Productions
Jigsaw Productions is helmed
by Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Alex
Gibney, considered one of the most prolific and
thought-provoking documentary filmmakers of our generation. Jigsaw
has produced some of the most acclaimed documentary films including
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, Oscar-winning
Taxi to the Dark Side, Oscar-nominated Enron: The Smartest Guys in
the Room, The Armstrong Lie, Client 9: The Rise and Fall of
Eliot Spitzer, and Zero Days.
Jigsaw's slate of highly visible TV series includes Dirty Money on
Netflix, Amazon's The New Yorker Presents, Parched on NatGeo, and
CNN's Death Row Stories. Whether the company is creating a
documentary or narrative film, a scripted or unscripted series,
Jigsaw adheres to a particular ethos: well-told, insightful,
scrupulously researched, and visually poignant stories, which
ignite and engage our curiosity. Reaching audiences on screens
small or large, on platforms digital or traditional, Jigsaw aims to
achieve critical and commercial success without sacrificing style
or authenticity.
ABOUT ESCAPE ARTISTS
Escape Artists is an
independently financed motion picture and television production
company with a first-look deal at Sony Pictures Entertainment for
film and a first-look deal with MGM Television for TV, headed by
Partners Steve Tisch, Todd Black,
Jason Blumenthal and David Bloomfield.
On the feature side, Escape's credits include The Upside, The
Equalizer franchise, Southpaw, Pursuit of Happyness and The
Weather Man. On the television side, Escape Artists first
straight to series show, Perpetual Grace, LTD., premiered on
June 2nd on EPIX. Next up on the
Escape Artists' roster is Servant for Apple TV+ with
Executive Producer M. Night Shyamalan and Troop Zero with
Amazon Studios.
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