Bilingual Comedy Ordered from Catalina Aguilar Mastretta

Amazon ordered a pilot for a Los Angeles-set bilingual comedy series, according to Variety.

Catalina Aguilar Mastretta will serve as writer, director, and executive producer. The series, told in Spanish and English, follows Sara, who has been the matriarch of her chosen family since her parents moved back to Mexico City in her late teens. She and her diverse group of friends and family attempt to master their careers and romantic entanglements while living together in Sara's Hollywood Hills compound. Now, Sara's mother, Ines, is moving back in and shedding a new light on the life Sara built for herself, pushing everyone towards a late-in-life coming of age.

Lorenza Izzo will star as Sara and Patricia Bernal will play Ines. Georgie Flores will play Alicia, Giancarlo Vidrio will play Nacho, Ben O'Toole will play Matt, and Sarah Ramos will play Anna.

In addition to Aguilar Mastretta, Tony Hernandez and Brooke Posch of JAX Media will also executive produce, with Liz Cohen of JAX producing. Amazon Studios will produce along with Jax.

Aguilar Mastretta wrote and directed the 2017 film "Everybody Loves Somebody." She also wrote and directed the 2015 film "The Hours With You" and has recently directed several episodes of the Starz series "Vida."

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