Do you spend half of your time across both sides of the US-Mexican border?
Then you and your friends and family can be the subject of a potentially new yet to be titled docuseries for a major cable network that looks to explore the lives of people either living on one side of the San Diego- Tijuana border while attending school or doing business on the other side.
“It will focus on students, Mexican-American or Mexican citizens or binational students and their families who spend a considerable amount of time on both sides of the border,” said casting director Sandra Philippeaux.
For the unscripted pilot, Philippeaux said she specifically seeks high school or college students who are charismatic with big personalities, people who are honest and expressive and who want to share their lives on television.
Philippeaux said she knows there is a lot of tension with President Donald Trump’s proposal to build a border wall but she said the show would not be political.
However, Philppeaux said in the midst of entertaining and enlightening, its audience could learn from the people highlighted in the show.
“We feel like there is no better time than to really kind of explorer this phenomenon and dynamic of Mexican-American families,” Philippeaux said. “This would be a great opportunity to show and help people understand binational families and their world. How similar they are to ours and how beneficial they are to our country.”
Most importantly, Philippeaux said the show has to captivate its audience.
“With the access to both of those worlds we hope the show will be interesting, enlightening, educational, inspiring and entertaining but because this is television we want it to be entertaining as well.”
Although San Diego has the busiest land border crossing in the world, the show will also look to explore lives of people living a life across the border in Arizona and Texas.
If interested, apply to the show at culturalcastings@gmail.com. In the email, state your full name, contact details and explain why you would be good for a show like this. Deadline to apply is July 11. Philippeaux said the show would offer some compensation.
Philippeaux said they are moving fast with production. She expects filming to start sometime during the last week of July.
Phillipeaux has an extensive casting resumé, previously casting for hit shows like MTV’s “Teen Mom,” “16 and Pregnant”; TruTv’s Road Kill and ABC’s Wife Swap.
