Christian Mejia
Christian Mejía is a writer and director raised by Mexican-immigrant parents in Chicago. He tells intimate working-class stories about chasing the American dream. Perpetually a step behind, his protagonists slog through the muddy bogs of class mobility in their journeys to reach the ivory tower, only to discover they lost the keys along the way.
Raised in the heartland, Christian has lived in nearly every corner of the US, braving icy glares in rural Maine, swampy dance floors in Miami, and smoldering housing prices in sunny L.A. He spent childhood summers trying not to get trampled by horses in the highlands of Jalisco, Mexico, where his people hail from.
A former teenage lawn mower salesman, machinist, coffee roaster, and commercial gaffer, he inherits his hustle from his grandpa, who was simultaneously the town cop and resident tequila smuggler.
Higher Ed
Half-hour | Dramedy
After nearly a decade preparing to be a professor, Julia Jimenez moves back in with her parents to take a temporary job at an elite liberal arts college. Finding it difficult to climb up the ivory tower, she leans on new colleagues as she begins to question life in the academy.
Fulanito
Half-hour | Dramedy
Fulanito, an undocumented immigrant living in the US, journeys to find fame as a musician as he struggles to support himself and his ailing mother in Mexico. After a dramatic break with his band, which leads to his dismissal from his day job, he must make it or break it as a solo act in the Latinx party scene with the help of Raul, his best friend and manager.