Area producer plans Pulse-based TV show

The Pulse tragedy has inspired a proposed Spanish-language TV series that will shoot entirely in Orlando, a local producer announced this week.

“Pulso 360” is a 13-episode drama from DreamFilms, an Orlando company owned by producer Aleksander Sagrav.

The series is dedicated to seven friends he lost in the June nightclub shooting in which 49 people died, and at least 68 more were wounded.

Sagrav said that he plans to film a presentation trailer later this month, show it to possible sponsors next month and start shooting the 30-minute episodes in April.

Where the 13-episode drama will air, however, is unclear.

Sagrav said in a release that it will be transmitted by Telemundo Orlando this summer.

But Telemundo Orlando and the network are not involved in the project, local General Manager Alejandro Sánchez said.

Telemundo Orlando added that people involved in the series inquired about purchasing a time slot from the station, which has the call letters WTMO, but no such program would be on the station unless it comes through the Telemundo Net- work.

Sagrav is the writer, director and producer on the program.

Sagrav is his stage name — Aleksander Vargas is his real name — and he produced a Spanish-language version of “The Birdcage” at Parliament House in the fall.

Sheena Fowler, director of the Orlando Film Commission, said her group was not familiar with DreamFilms but looked forward to learning more.

“We’ve reached out to the company,” she said. “[We] wanted to make sure we can offer any support while they’re in production in Orlando and look forward to working with the project.”

Sagrav, who said his company has made four films, added that he plans to meet the commission soon.

“Pulso 360” mixes what happened inside the club with fiction, Sagrav said, and the first episode will show people coming out of the club the morning of the tragedy.

Later episodes will flash back to scenes inside the club.

A press release describes the survivor Nuria as having “bloody, pale skin and shortened breath with a sixth sense” and says the character “has escaped the chaos and sits in a state of shock.”

The release adds: “In the dark- ness of pain, seven auras escape and scatter and cling to the bodies of seven people living in distant and different cities and states. These seven strangers will connect through ‘Nuria’ and their sixth sense and face the truth about themselves they have been afraid to.”

Sagrav described the story as spiritual but not horror.

The release said the story explores how “the LGBTQ community is shaken.”

“The seven people will meet at some point,” he said. “We will see how they deal with discrimination and pain.”