‘Gentefied’ EP America Ferrera: Netflix Comedy Series Captures “All Of The Things That I Am” — Sundance Studio

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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 | Sundance

began its life as a short-form web series, dreamed up by Marvin Lemus and Linda Yvette Chávez.

“It was a neighborhood that was very Latino, and it reminded me of home—of the neighborhoods that I grew up in,” the first generation writer/director explained, while sitting down at Deadline’s Sundance Studio. “But very quickly, I was noticing a lot of hipsters moving in, [a] new Thai spot, [a] new cupcake spot.”

 

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