Catalina Aguilar Mastretta has lined up her next project. The “Vida” director has been tapped to helm “Este Dia,” or “This Day,” from Sony Pictures’ Stage 6 Films. Mastretta is also working on the script for the multi-generational bilingual comedy. Deadline broke the news.
Slated to kick off production in New York this spring, “This Day” celebrates the “magic that happens over the course of a single day in New York, when lives and loves intersect in unexpected and meaningful ways, and people realize that there is more that unites us than divides us, on this day and every day,” the source details. Casting is underway.
Mastretta made her feature debut with 2017 Karla Souza-starrer “Everybody Loves Somebody.” Amazon greenlit an untitled pilot from Mastretta led by Lorenza Izzo (“Life Itself”). The bilingual comedy is a portrait of family, both biological and chosen. The series sees Sara’s (Izzo)’s life in the Hollywood Hills take an unexpected turn when her mother leaves Mexico City to move in.
Check out a video of Mastretta discussing her cultural identity, the importance of inclusive stories, and the barriers she’s faced as a woman director below.
