EXCLUSIVE: Impartial Artist Group has signed Eduardo Cisneros, co-creator of Apple TV+’s Eugenio Derbez starrer Acapulco and co-writer of Focus Options’ comedy Half Brothers, for illustration.
Cisneros additionally serves as exec producer and author of Acapulco, a comedy sequence now in its third season, which has been a vital success, with a mean viewers rating of 94% on Rotten Tomatoes, successful the Imagen Award for Greatest Primetime Comedy, in addition to incomes nominations on the Critics’ Alternative Awards and the HCA Tv Awards.
The Mexican-born filmmaker teamed along with his Acapulco inventive accomplice and frequent collaborator Jason Shuman to script Half Brothers, which grew to become a Prime 10 hit around the globe when it was launched on Netflix final 12 months.
The duo’s manufacturing firm Raqmar just lately wrapped up a multi-year first look function deal at Sony. Growth initiatives rising from that deal embrace Telenovela, which Cisneros is writing to direct with Montecito producing, and The Massive Day, which Shuman and Cisneros are co-writing and producing.
Exterior of that deal, the pair wrote a reboot of the sci-fi comedy Brief Circuit for Spyglass and are creating a sequence undertaking with Warner Bros Tv.
Cisneros’s different work as a producer consists of the drama To Leslie, which introduced star Andrea Riseborough her first Academy Award nomination, and the vital darling The Obituary of Tunde Johnson, which premiered at TIFF in 2019. Presently, he’s engaged on his function directorial debut, The Resurrectionist, in addition to the quick Bespoke, which can shoot in Amsterdam in Might.
The inventive’s profession began at a younger age in his native Mexico, the place he would go on to co-create two of essentially the most profitable Spanish-language tv comedy reveals of latest years: XHDRBZ and La familia P. Luche. Born and raised in Monterrey, Mexico, he’s on the advisory board of the Los Angeles Academy of Arts and Enterprise and is a founding member of LA Clubhouse, an expert group dedicated to empowering movie and tv writers of LGBTQIA+ Latinx background.
Cisneros continues to be represented by Valor Leisure Group and Allen Vainshtein.