Soapbox Mexico

As the soap’s team cel­e­brates its suc­cess and sur­vival, it also finds a new tar­get au­di­ence, men who need to change.

Drugs and gangs, the Mex­i­co por­trayed most of­ten in the me­dia, makes it into the pop­u­lar soap’s sto­ry lines too.

How to keep a te­len­ov­ela prof­itable and de­mand­ing spon­sors hap­py while in­spir­ing the pro­duc­tion team to stay pas­sion­ate.

Tak­ing on the chal­lenge to ed­u­cate Mex­i­co’s rur­al and poor in­dige­nous pop­u­la­tion us­ing a pop­u­lar soap opera.

Can soap op­eras help tack­le stig­ma and dis­crim­i­na­tion re­lat­ed to HIV/AIDS in Mex­i­co?

One woman re­calls des­per­ate years of vi­o­lent abuse and then wit­ness­es how her life is turned into a te­len­ov­ela.

Soap­box Mex­i­co fol­lows the pro­duc­tion team be­hind one of the coun­try’s most suc­cess­ful te­len­ov­e­las.

Film­mak­er Jo­sue An­dav­ert says Soap­box Mex­i­co shows how im­por­tant melo­dra­mas can be in shap­ing the re­al­i­ty of a na­tion.

Be­hind the scenes of a pop­u­lar Mex­i­can soap opera which tack­les con­tro­ver­sial is­sues to in­spire and em­pow­er its view­ers.

What are the ten­sions and real-life dra­mas fac­ing the ac­tors, writ­ers and pro­duc­ers of a suc­cess­ful Mex­i­can soap opera?