Emmy, SAG and Golden Globe-winning actor, producer, director and activist America Ferrera is all set to to maker her feature directorial début with ‘I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter’ at Netflix. The film will be based on the adapted screenplay by Linda Yvette Chávez’s (‘Gentefied’) of the New York Times bestselling novel of the same name by Erika L. Sánchez, who will co-produce ‘I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter’ on Netflix.
The novel, ‘I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter’ is a poignant, laugh-out-loud funny contemporary YA about losing a sister and finding yourself amid the pressures, expectations, and stereotypes of growing up in a Mexican American home. The novel was a finalist of the National Book Award in 2017 and went on to win the Tomas Rivera Mexican American Children’s Book Award in 2018.
As per Netflix, the story follows Julia Reyes, the precocious and strong-willed teenaged daughter of first-generation Mexican immigrants. She often clashes with her more traditional parents, who wish she were more like her sister Olga, the platonic ideal of a Mexican daughter. However, when Olga is killed in a tragic accident, it is up to Julia to hold her family together.
Anonymous Content, which optioned the rights to the book under the company’s first-look deal with Aevitas Creative Management, will produce ‘I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter’ along with MACRO.
Doreen Wilcox Little for Anonymous Content, Charles D. King and Poppy Hanks for MACRO and David Kuhn for Aevitas Creative Management will serve as the producer for the Netflix film. Executive producers include Aevitas’s Michelle Brower, and MACRO’s Greta Fuentes.
America Ferrera who will be directing her first feature film with ‘I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter’ at Netflix has multiple noteworthy television and film credits to her name. These include her award-winning performance on the hit ABC show Ugly Betty, Diego Luna’s biopic, Cesar Chavez, (ALMA Award Special achievement in Film), the Oscar® nominated franchise films ‘How to Train Your Dragon’, ‘The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants’ and ‘Real Women Have Curves’. Her most recent work is NBC workplace comedy, ‘Superstore’ in which she stars, produces and directs; and Netflix’s ‘Gentefied’ which she is currently executive producing and directing.
No other details about the cast, crew and release date of ‘I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter’ have been revealed by Netflix.
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