I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, America Ferrera's directorial debut based on Erika Sánchez's 2017 novel, is currently in development, with Linda Yvette Chávez as the screenwriter. Deadline reported that the project "reunites Ferrera with Chávez following their collaboration on Netflix's Gentefied, a TV series co-created by the latter and executive produced by the pair."
Previously set at Netflix, the movie is now being developed at Amazon MGM Studios' Orion Pictures. Producers include Doreen Wilcox Little, MACRO Film Studio's Charles D. King and Poppy Hanks, Aevitas Creative Management's David Kuhn and Anonymous Content. Sánchez and MACRO Film Studio's Greta Talia Fuentes will executive produce. Anonymous Content optioned the rights to the book under the company's first-look deal with Aevitas Creative Management.