America Ferrera will make her feature film directorial debut with I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, an adaptation of Erika L. Sánchez‘s New York Times bestseller novel by the same name, for Netflix.

The dramedy follows Julia Reyes, a strong-willed teenage daughter of Mexican immigrants with traditional values. When her sister dies in a tragic accident, Julia steps in to try and hold the family together.

Sánchez‘s award-winning novel will be adapted for the big screen by Linda Yvette Chávez who is also the co-creator and co-executive producer of Gentefied, another Netflix show.

Although this is Ferrera first time directing a feature, she has been honing her skills directing on television, including several episodes on Gentefied and Superstore, the TV series she starred in for five years.

Charles King’s Macro, the original producer of the first iteration of Gentified (as a web series) will serve as producer for I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter along with Anonymous Content. MACRO’s Greta Fuentes will also executive produce along with Aevitas Creative Management’s Michelle Brower through their first-look deal with Anonymous Content.

America Ferrara is represented by CAA. Linda Yvette Chávez is represented by WME.

— Latin Heat News Service

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King along with Macro’s Poppy Hanks will produce the film along with Castrillon and Ty Walker. The project is described as an “energetic, youth-driven, metal-blasting coming age story” that follows two Colombian brothers as they adjust to life in America. Executive producing for Macro are Creative Producer Greta Fuentes, and Director of Development Yira Vilaro.

 The Arias brothers and both are repped by Kazarian/Measures/Ruskin & Associate and Myman, Greenspan, Fox, Rosenberg. Valderrama is repped by UTA and Silver Lining Ent. Uchis is repped by WME; and Kim by UTA, Brillstein Entertainment Partners, and Gang, Tyre, Ramer, Brown & Passman. Arango and Castrillon are repped by Paradigm, Valor Entertainment Group, and Hirsch, Wallerstein, Hayum.

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