Dom: Of family, feuds, favelas and funk parties

Director and showrunner, Breno Silveira, and actors Gabriel Leone and Flávio Tolezani talk about the Brazilian show, which pits father against son in a war against drugs

Fact is often stranger than fiction and Dom, a Brazilian Amazon Original series, is the latest example. The show tells the story of the conflict between Pedro Dom, (Gabriel Leone) a notorious criminal in Rio De Janeiro, and his father, Victor Dantas, (Flávio Tolezani) an undercover policeman. Speaking from Rio De Janeiro, director and showrunner, Breno Silveira hopes the story will travel around the world. “Victor came to me when his son died 12 years ago. We had all heard of Dom, a leader of a criminal gang and famous in the 1990s in Brazil. Nobody knew that his father was a police officer, an undercover agent.”