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Linda Yvette Chávez, co-creator, executive producer and showrunner of Gentefied, shared a personal essay Friday following Netflix’s decision to cancel the Latinx dramedy series after two seasons. In the emotional letter to fans posted on Instagram next to a quote by Theodore Roosevelt, Chávez, who co-created, exec…

Gentefied‘s Linda Yvette Chávez has signed a multi-year overall deal with 20th Television. She will create her own as well as supervise other writers' dramas and comedies for all platforms. “Just take one look at the creators Karey Burke, Carolyn Cassidy and how their teams are uplifting at 20th Television and you'll…

Emmy and Golden Globe winner America Ferrera is set to make her feature directorial debut with an adaptation of the New York Times bestselling novel, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by author Erika Sánchez, who will serve as a co-producer on the film. Anonymous Content and MACRO are producing the pic, which…

The journey for Marvin Lemus and Linda Yvette Chávez‘s Netflix series Gentefied started off as a web series that premiered at Sundance in 2017 that never saw its time on the Internet — at least as a web series it didn’t. Instead, it premiered on the streaming giant as a full-blown series putting a spotlight on the…

A comedy series coming to Netflix on February 21st, Gentefied began its life as a short-form web series, dreamed up by Marvin Lemus and Linda Yvette Chávez. Centered on three Mexican-American cousins, who struggle in their pursuit of the American dream, the series was inspired by Lemus' experiences when he moved into…