Filming is underway for Am I the Wave?, a film adaptation of Francisco Goldman's award-winning novel Say Her Name, Deadline reported. Alejandra Márquez Abella (The Good Girls) is directing, with Manuel García-Rulfo (The Lincoln Lawyer, Jurassic World: Rebirth) and Renata Vaca (K-POP: The Debut) leading the cast.
Set in Brooklyn and Mexico City, the English-language film "is inspired by Goldman's real-life romance with the brilliant young Mexican writer Aura Estrada. It follows Francisco, an American novelist splitting his time between New York and Mexico, and Aura, a fellow writer and force of nature fighting to establish herself on her own terms. Their love story is passionate, funny, intellectual, and deeply alive, until a single, tragic wave on a beach in Oaxaca changes everything," Deadline wrote.
Márquez Abella co-wrote the screenplay with Academy Award nominee Scott B. Smith (A Simple Plan) and Goldman.