Jorge Xolalpa and his Mighty Aphrodite Pictures production banner teams up with Val Valdez at Undeniable Entertainment to option the rights to best-selling novelist Maria De Lourdes Victoria’s La Casa De Los Secretos (The House of Secrets). Xolalpa will pen the script and executive produce alongside Valdez.
Centered in Oaxaca, Mexico: The House of Secrets weaves together two parallel love stories separated by a generation. The story of Cienne, an Irish nun who arrives in Mexico after fleeing The Great Famine of 1847 in Ireland and Patricia’s story which takes place in Oaxaca after the tumultuous years of The Mexican Revolution. Through conversations and stories told by Cienne, Patricia discovers the mystery of her identity and a secret that holds two generation of women together.
Mighty Aphrodite Pictures has proved good at identifying and acquiring tastemaker material centered on Latinx stories. Having produced award-winning films like Valentina and Your Iron Lady and now expected to release their most recent film MELANCOLiA starring Alessandra Rosaldo, this coming summer.
Xolalpa is currently in production of his most ambitious project to date titled SVGS starring Vadhir Derbez and Elyfer Torres, producing alongside Val Valdez, Sara Seligman, and Veronica Xolalpa as Executive Producer. At the moment the novel is being shopped at all major studio networks and streaming platforms.
Planeta is the publisher of the novel. Xolalpa and Mighty Aphrodite Pictures are both repped by Avatar Entertainment.
