Upcoming Projects from the Tocaya Slate

TO THE EAST

Feature Film (In Development with the Satyajit Ray Institute in Kolkata)
Language: English / Spanish / Tamil
Off-the-screen: Bharatanatyam Dance, Fashion, Sound
Awards: Sundance Screenwriters Lab Shortlist 2020
 

An Indian-American woman in Mexico City re-stages her childhood dance camp from memory. As the performance unfolds, long-buried traumas and contradictions resurface.

BITCH

A mysterious outcast uses an ancient ritual to punish the elite by turning them into dogs. But a new friendship forces her to question her rage, her mixed roots, and the fractured world around them.

See our first off-the-screen of BITCH here: THE INTERVENTION

GRASA

Short Film (In Development)
Language: English / Spanish
Off-the-screen: Immersive, Editorial: taqueria cult myths

A young Mexican-American girl arrives in Mexico city to explore her heritage, only to be kidnapped and drawn into an underground cult after eating a greasy taco.

After a town blackout, three siblings discover their home exists by accident between two toll booths. Their journey leads through roadside micro-nations shaped by exile, diaspora, and resistance.