Creator of ‘Selena’ Launches a Production Company

If you are craving more stories about our community, then you are going to love what the creator of Netflix’s Selena: The Series, Moises Zamora, along with Bianca Quesada, have created; Zone One, a production company focused on telling stories with Latin flavor.

Quesada — who worked at Starz, CAA and Live Nation — will be the head of development and production. Ellen Gorra, who previously worked with Quesada at Live Nation, will serve as head of ventures and new business.

“Our deepest hope is that our work will show a long awaited, repositioned breadth of the Latinx, Afro-Latin, and Indigenous narrative while being cognizant of the delicate balance of entertaining and enlightening a global audience,” Quesada said. “We are traversing new narrative ground and are dedicated to ensuring that we meet the moment of today’s global culture.”

Zone One already has multiple projects in the works. On the TV front, the company is readying The Whistleblower, a drama based on attorney Natalie Khawam that explores the high-profile case of missing Fort Hood soldier Vanessa Guillén. The project is set up at HBO Max.

Another project is Off the Rims, a drama described as Fast and the Furious meets Atlanta set to the beat of reggaeton. It follows two Afro-Latinx childhood friends who have tried to play by the rules of society, but had to bend them in order to live the American Dream, creating one of the world’s most sophisticated car theft rings.

On the feature side, Zone One has To Die Sane, co-written by Zamora and Carlos Cisco (Star Trek: Discovery). The flick revolves around a Mexican-American ICE agent who becomes increasingly paranoid and unhinged after a detained young immigrant commits suicide and his fellow agents fall victim one by one to El Cuco, the mythic child-snatching figure of Latino lore.