EXCLUSIVE: Avenger is a podcast that tells the story of Miriam Lewin, who at 19 years old was kidnapped off the streets of Buenos Aires for her political activism and imprisoned in a concentration camp during Argentina’s military junta in the 1970s/80s.
The podcast, which was directed by Fisher Stevens and starred The Handmaid’s Tale’s Alexis Bledel as the voice of Lewin, is now set for a feature film adaptation.
The film version is being written and directed by Natalia Beristáin, who has helmed episodes of Apple’s Midnight Family and The Mosquito Coast and Netflix’s The Gringo Hunters.
As one of the few to survive, Lewin later became an acclaimed journalist and pursued justice against her tormentors, investigating and exposing those responsible for the notorious “death flights” where live prisoners were thrown from planes into the sea. She was profiled on 60 Minutes in March.
The podcast was part of a deal between Orbit Media, which was founded by Stevens, who directed The Cove documentary and starred in HBO’s Succession, Steve Fishman, Dax-Devlon Ross and Marci Wiseman, and podcast company Sonoro in 2022.
Fisher Stevens and Zak Kilberg are producing the adaptation with Steve Fishman and Marci Wiseman with Maura Anderson exec producing.
Beristáin is repped by Entertainment 360 and attorney Matthew Wallerstein at HWHM+F. Orbit, Stevens & Highly Flammable are repped by WME.
