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Just because somebody is an undocumented immigrant doesn’t mean they are a criminal; let’s get that straight first. Criminals are criminals regardless of what they look like or where they are from. Countries that have anti-immigration policies are infamous for protecting criminals who have been born and brought up there. If an immigrant is upper class, White, and is benefiting capitalists and politicians, then they’ll be “naturalized” and given access to all the benefits that those who are native (that’s a stretch when it comes to the USA) to the land get. If an immigrant is from the lower class and has a high melanin count, they are treated like garbage and paid peanuts, even though they are the backbone of the society; the process of “naturalization,” or attaining citizenship, is a pipe dream for them. To be honest, anti-immigration sentiments and policies don’t usually...

Exclusive: Jorge Dorantes, the co-creator, executive producer and co-showrunner of the upcoming Netflix series The Gringo Hunters, has signed with Vision Entertainment for management.

Expected to begin streaming later this year, The Gringo Hunters delves into the operations of the International Liaison Unit, a real-life elite Mexican police unit known for apprehending American fugitives who flee to Mexico. Based on an article by Kevin Sieff in The Washington Post, the show is also exec produced by Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, and Kristen Zolner for Imagine Entertainment and Stacy Perskie for Redrum.

Dorantes previously co-created The Chosen One for Netflix, based on Mark Millar’s hit comic book series American Jesus. Starring Diana Agron, the series made the Netflix Top 10 in 44 countries. Dorantes also co-created Aquí en la tierra (Here on Earth) with Gael García Bernal and Kyzza Terrazas, a political thriller which was the only Latin American series selected for...

Buenos Aires — Launching their new production house, La Corriente de Golfo, last April, Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna have tapped Mexican writer-director Kyzza Terrazas as the company’s head of development.

The appointment will certainly help build the company appointing an old-rounder capable of overseeing and implementing development, writing and directing, and a longtime friend of manny of the leading lights of a new creative generation of Mexican directors which has made its marks in cinema but is often now diversifying into TV.

It also builds on past relationships: a longtime friend and work colleague of both García Bernal and Luna, Terrazas co-wrote García Bernal’s feature debut “Deficit,” headed up development at Canana, the company Garcia Bernal and Luna created with Pablo Cruz from 2005. Terrazas ankled Canana in 2009 to make his feature debut, “Machete Language,” produced by Mexico City shingle Mr. Woo and exec-produced by García Bernal and Diego Luna.

Location shooting is underway in Mexico and Argentina for Season 2 of Fox Premium’s “Here on Earth”, the multi award- winning series created by Gael Garcia Bernal, Kyzza Terrazas and Jorge Dorantes.

Mexican actors Adriana Barraza, Kristyan Ferrer and Natasha Dupeyron join the Season 1 cast toplined by Bernal, Alfonso Dosal, Daniel Giménez Cacho –who will also helm an episode – along with Tenoch Huerta, Colombian actress Paulina Dávila and Spanish actress Ariadna Gil.

The political drama-thriller series of eight one-hour episodes has already picked up a clutch of awards including at Canneseries, the Zurich Film Festival, and most recently at the Fenix Film Awards held in Mexico City in its Outstanding Ensemble Cast category.

In this new season of “Here on Earth,” lead character Carlos Calles (Dosal), begins to perceive certainties about the death of his father while his stepfather, Governor Mario Rocha (Giménez Cacho), tries to keep the truth hidden...

Isaac Lee, the former chief creative officer of Univision and Televisa, has formed an ambitious new company called Exile Content and he has acquired Mexican production services company Redrum.

Redrum founder Stacy Perskie will run Exile’s studio along with his team of partners, including Adrian Grunberg, who is currently directing “Rambo 5” and helmed Redrum’s first original in-house production, “Get the Gringo,” starring Mel Gibson. Exile Content will have offices in Mexico and Los Angeles.

Redrum has provided production services to some of the most prominent films to shoot in Mexico, including “Godzilla: King of Monsters,” “Blade Runner 2049, “Bel Canto,” “Spectre” and “Elysium.” On the TV side, it has worked on Netflix’s “Narcos: Mexico” and season two of Amazon Prime’s “Mozart in the Jungle,” among others.

“Exile is about premium content and no one in the region has more experience producing with the highest production values then Redrum,...

Here on Earth, a Mexican political corruption drama, co-created, directed by and starring Gael Garcia Bernal (Mozart in the Jungle) has won the inaugural Golden Eye award for best series at the Zurich International Film Festival.

The drama, produced by Bernal's Gulf Stream shingle together with Fox Networks Latin America, premiered at the CanneSeries TV festival earlier this year. It follows the lives of two men who from their childhood have been caught up in the world of crime and political corruption in Mexico.

Bernal co-created the series with Jorge Dorantes and Kyzza Terrazas. It stars Alfonso Dosal, Tenoch Huerta,...

The event launches in Cannes this April.

Canneseries, the international TV festival launching in Cannes this April (7-11), has revealed the ten series in its official competition selection.

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The titles include Killing Eve created by Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Fleabag) and starring Sandra Oh and Fiona Shaw, and Aquí En La Terra, created by Gael García Bernal with Kyzza Terrazas and Jorge Dorantes.

The titles were selected by Canneseries artistic director Albin Lewi.

The festival was founded by David Lisnard, mayor of Cannes and presided by former French culture minister Fleur Pellerin. It will run alongside Miptv.