‘Instructions Not Included’s’ Monica Lozano Boards ‘Cepeda,’ from ‘Caso 63’s’ Julio Rojas, ‘Allende’s’ Nicolas Acuña (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comJohn Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Mexico’s Mónica Lozano, producer of Alejandro González Iñarritu’s “Amores Perros” and Eugenio Derbéz’s “Instructions Not Included,” has boarded “Cepeda,” an envelope-pushing Mexico-set procedural, turning on a Mexican cop who’s an Indigenous woman and great at her job.
Development over the last two years has been financed by Acuña’s Chile-based Promocine. Put back, however, by the pandemic, the project is now set up at Lozano’s Mexico City production house Alebrije Producciones, one of Mexico’s most active forces in international production, behind Carlos Carrera’s Quirino Award winner “Ana y Bruno” and Fox’s “Run Coyote Run.” “Cepeda” is written by Chile’s Julio Rojas, who has shot to global fame as creator of Podcast phenom “Caso 63.” Rojas also served as story editor on Lucía Puenzo’s “La Jauría,” and writer on Pablo Fendrik’s “El Refugio” and Matías Bize’s “The Life of Fish,” selected by Variety in 2020 as one of the 10 best foreign films in the last decade still without U.S.
distribution. The boundary-breaking series will be directed by Chile-based Nicolás Acuña, a key figure in the build of Latin American premium TV drama and director of “Allende, The Thousand Days,” which made a splash last week at San Sebastián, He was also the creator of the pioneering series “Besieged” and producer-director of big budget “Inés of My Soul,” backed by Spain’s RTVE and Prime Video. “Cepeda” begins with the discovery of a dead woman worker at an all powerful multinational mining corporation in Mexico.
A police detective in homicides, specialising in femicides, Cepeda is given the case and ends up pitted against the mining giant.
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