Netflix Orders Latinx Dramedy from America Ferrera

A digital series produced by America Ferrera is set to be turned into a half-hour dramedy by Netflix, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Netflix has ordered 10 episodes of Gente-fied, a bilingual Latinx series about the lives of three Mexican-American cousins chasing the American dream in a rapidly changing Los Angeles even as that dream threatens their neighborhood, their immigrant grandfather and their family taco shop.

Gente-fied started as a Macro-produced web series following seven characters as they deal with change to their Boyle Heights neighborhood. The web series premiered at Sundance in 2017.

First-generation Chicano writers Marvin Lemus and Linda Yvette Chavez created the series as a love letter to the Latinx and Boyle Heights communities. Lemus and Chavez will also serve as co-executive producers and writers on the series, with Lemus directing. Monica Macer will serve as showrunner. Ferrera executive produces with Charles D. King and Kim Roth for Macro, Teri Weinberg for Yellow Brick Road and Aaliyah Williams.

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