In a move aimed at powering up more content for the massive U.S. Hispanic market and beyond, leading indie production shingle Btf Media has teamed up with L.A.-based American Cinema Inspires (Aci) to develop and produce a slew of Hispanic productions with predominantly U.S. Latino talent.
Leading the vanguard is Sandra Martin’s “Finding Love in San Antonio,” which follows Adela, a successful Latina chef in L.A. (played by Valentina Izarra), who is offered a plum job at a new network series that will send her across Europe. While visiting San Antonio, she meets David (George Akram), a local food writer who wrote a blistering piece about her. Their unlikely romance will lead to Adela’s rediscovery of her hometown and force her to decide whether she should stay in San Antonio or accept the once-in-a-lifetime job offer.
“Giving women a voice has always been important to me.
Leading the vanguard is Sandra Martin’s “Finding Love in San Antonio,” which follows Adela, a successful Latina chef in L.A. (played by Valentina Izarra), who is offered a plum job at a new network series that will send her across Europe. While visiting San Antonio, she meets David (George Akram), a local food writer who wrote a blistering piece about her. Their unlikely romance will lead to Adela’s rediscovery of her hometown and force her to decide whether she should stay in San Antonio or accept the once-in-a-lifetime job offer.
“Giving women a voice has always been important to me.
- 10/21/2021
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
The need for authentic storytelling takes more than just a screenwriter. Outside research, good intentions, and personal experience come together to tell a story that can, hopefully, influence and inspire others to see themselves reflected in a piece of popular culture. Authentic representation should allow for more stories to take flight, and such is the case with the relationship between Define American and The CW series, “Roswell, N.M.”
“Roswell, N.M” is a reboot of the television series “Roswell” which aired on the then-wb Network from 1999-2002. The teen drama followed a group of high schoolers, four of whom were alien survivors from the infamous 1947 UFO crash. But it’s immediately clear how the original series reflected a time before prominent calls for diversity. The book series cast its heroine as a Latina, but outside of her last name there was nothing about the character that emphasized her roots.
“Roswell, N.M” is a reboot of the television series “Roswell” which aired on the then-wb Network from 1999-2002. The teen drama followed a group of high schoolers, four of whom were alien survivors from the infamous 1947 UFO crash. But it’s immediately clear how the original series reflected a time before prominent calls for diversity. The book series cast its heroine as a Latina, but outside of her last name there was nothing about the character that emphasized her roots.
- 3/25/2020
- by Kristen Lopez
- Indiewire
Network: The CW.
Episodes: Ongoing (hour).
Seasons: Ongoing.
TV show dates: January 15, 2019 — present.
Series status: Has not been cancelled.
Performers include: Jeanine Mason, Nathan Parsons, Lily Cowles, Michael Vlamis, Michael Trevino, Tyler Blackburn, Heather Hemmens, Trevor St. John, Karan Oberoi, Rosa Arredondo, Carlos Compean, Riley Voelkel, Amber Midthunder, Sherri Saum, Cynthia Black, and Dylan McTee.
TV show description:
An adaptation of the Roswell High book series by Melinda Metz, the Roswell, New Mexico TV show was developed for television by Carina Adly MacKenzie, a former writer on the cancelled series, The Originals. This is the second time Metz's books have been adapted for TV, with the first being Roswell, which ran between 1999 and 2002, on...
Episodes: Ongoing (hour).
Seasons: Ongoing.
TV show dates: January 15, 2019 — present.
Series status: Has not been cancelled.
Performers include: Jeanine Mason, Nathan Parsons, Lily Cowles, Michael Vlamis, Michael Trevino, Tyler Blackburn, Heather Hemmens, Trevor St. John, Karan Oberoi, Rosa Arredondo, Carlos Compean, Riley Voelkel, Amber Midthunder, Sherri Saum, Cynthia Black, and Dylan McTee.
TV show description:
An adaptation of the Roswell High book series by Melinda Metz, the Roswell, New Mexico TV show was developed for television by Carina Adly MacKenzie, a former writer on the cancelled series, The Originals. This is the second time Metz's books have been adapted for TV, with the first being Roswell, which ran between 1999 and 2002, on...
- 1/16/2019
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
A remake doesn’t necessarily have to justify its existence in this, the age of too much #content, but it’s always a genuine pleasure when it nonetheless makes a great case.
“Roswell, New Mexico” is a canny blend of the two ways that its story — of aliens living on Earth and the humans who may or may not love them — has already been told. The WB’s “Roswell” was an unabashed teen soap that wrung every longing glance out of its high school protagonists. It starred a young Shiri Appleby as human heroine Liz, and while Appleby was promising from the start, the book series “Roswell” was based on (“Roswell High”) had purposefully made Liz Latina. As writers Liz Burns and Melissa Metz said on Twitter last summer, situating the books in New Mexico meant that “the characters were living in a place with a diverse population, one that...
“Roswell, New Mexico” is a canny blend of the two ways that its story — of aliens living on Earth and the humans who may or may not love them — has already been told. The WB’s “Roswell” was an unabashed teen soap that wrung every longing glance out of its high school protagonists. It starred a young Shiri Appleby as human heroine Liz, and while Appleby was promising from the start, the book series “Roswell” was based on (“Roswell High”) had purposefully made Liz Latina. As writers Liz Burns and Melissa Metz said on Twitter last summer, situating the books in New Mexico meant that “the characters were living in a place with a diverse population, one that...
- 1/14/2019
- by Caroline Framke
- Variety Film + TV
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