America Ferrera to Make Feature Directorial Debut With 'I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter'

As someone, like you, who is obsessed with films and TV series and the creation of them, there are a ton of stories about actors landing career-changing jobs after years of thankless auditions and terrible projects. Well, I’m not someone that can predict the future, but I have to assume the upcoming film, “Babylon,” is going to be a career-defining moment for Mexican actor, Diego Calva.

Toni Collette will make a feature directorial debut with an adaptation of Lily King’s Writers and Lovers. Topic Studios, which recently released the Jodie Foster-starrerThe Mauritanian, is behind the project that is based on the New York Times bestseller.

Oscar-nominated actress Toni Collette is set to mark her feature directorial debut with an adaptation of New York Times bestselling novel, Writers And Lovers by Lily King. The project is set up at Topic Studios with Collette producing under her Vocab Films label. She’s also adapting the screenplay with Nick Payne (The Crown).

Thomas Markle reacted to his daughter Meghan Markle and her husband Prince Harry's bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey on Tuesday, and amid his defense of the British royal family, he voiced regret for the staged photos he took in Mexico that ultimately led to his estrangement from the Duchess of Sussex.

Ricardo González, known as Cepillín, has died at the age of 75. González died after entering intensive care yesterday for heart failure and pneumonia.

direct to your inboxThomas Markle, the father of the Duchess of Sussex, said he was "disappointed" after seeing his daughter’s interview with Oprah Winfrey. The explosive interview with Meghan and Prince Harry is being discussed across the world after it aired in the US on Sunday night before being aired in the UK on ITV.

When a filmmaker like four-time Oscar winner Alejandro González Iñárritu (a two-time Best Director winner and nine-time nominee total; plus a Special Achievement Academy Award for the VR film “Flesh and Sand“) makes a new film, the world, and the trades generally know about it first. But like Alfonso Cuaron, who made “Roma” away from the Hollywood system, when someone like Iñárritu makes a film in his native Mexico, it usually goes somewhat uncovered by the American media for months.

Amazon Prime Video has swooped on the critically acclaimed Chilean LGBTQ+ drama My Tender Matador for Latin America. The film —which first bowed in the Venice Days sidebar of the 2020 Venice Film Festival —won the audience award in the Open Horizons section of the 2020 Thessaloniki Film Festival.

Activist Rose McGowan says the political divide in America contributed to her decision to move out of the United States to Mexico last year. Speaking with Fox News from her new home, the former "Charmed" actress detailed her current path to healing after feeling rather depleted in the wake of Harvey Weinstein's early 2020 New York trial as well as the build-up to the presidential election.

 America Ferrera  is already an Emmy and Golden Globe winner, but she’s about to add another accomplishment to her growing resume. The actress is set to make her feature directorial debut with an adaptation of the New York Times bestselling novel, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter.

America Ferrera is making her feature directorial debut!

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterAmerica Ferrera is stepping behind the camera for the first time to direct “I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter.” The film, adapted from Erika L. Sánchez’s novel, will debut on Netflix.The YA story is about losing a sister and finding yourself amid the pressures, expectations and stereotypes of growing up in a Mexican American home.

Emmy and Golden Globe winner America Ferrera is set to make her feature directorial debut with an adaptation of the New York Times bestselling novel, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by author Erika Sánchez, who will serve as a co-producer on the film. Anonymous Content and MACRO are producing the pic, which will be released on Netflix.

Rose McGowan is getting a change of scenery!

Outspoken actress Rose McGowan has moved to Mexico and says she will never return to live in the USA.

Rose McGowan has left the United States and is currently living in Mexico. "I just got my permanent residency card from Mexico, and I’m so grateful to have it.This is a really healing land here and it is truly magical," she announced in an interview on the "The Dab Roast." The 47-year-old actress has been living in Mexico for almost a year.