# Sandra Cisneros feature documentary film in production in the state of Guanajuato, Mexico, from filmmaker Soco Aguilar - Published: 2026-11-10 - Author: [Entertainment News](https://entertainmentnews.io/author/entertainmentnews-io.md) - Topics: [News](https://entertainmentnews.io/news.md) - Source: https://entertainmentnews.io/news/sandra-cisneros-feature-documentary-film-in-production-in-the-state-of-guanajuato-mexico-f/ - Publication: Entertainment News - Publisher: Connectively (Terkel, Inc.) - Editorial policy: https://entertainmentnews.io/editorial-policy/ [![Sandra Cisneros walking to the market in San Miguel de Allende.](https://www.einpresswire.com/image/medium/1244918/sandra-cisneros-walking.jpeg)](https://www.einpresswire.com/image/large/1244918/sandra-cisneros-walking.jpeg#4000x3423) Sandra Cisneros walking to the market in San Miguel de Allende. [![Producer and director Soco Aguilar goofing around with Sandra Cisneros in San Miguel de Allende.](https://www.einpresswire.com/image/medium/1244926/soco-aguilar-goofing-around-wit.jpeg)](https://www.einpresswire.com/image/large/1244926/soco-aguilar-goofing-around-wit.jpeg#4032x3024) Producer and director Soco Aguilar goofing around with Sandra Cisneros in San Miguel de Allende. [![Sandra Cisneros protesting at No Kings march in San Miguel de Allende.](https://www.einpresswire.com/image/medium/1244928/sandra-cisneros-protesting-at-n.jpeg)](https://www.einpresswire.com/image/large/1244928/sandra-cisneros-protesting-at-n.jpeg#4000x3000) Sandra Cisneros protesting at No Kings march in San Miguel de Allende. *“Sandra Cisneros: Neither From Here, Nor There” follows the author of “The House on Mango Street” from Chicago to San Antonio to San Miguel de Allende.* SAN MIGUEL DE ALLENDE, GUANAJUATO, MEXICO, November 10, 2026 /[EINPresswire.com](https://www.einpresswire.com/)/ -- [Sandra Cisneros](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra_Cisneros) could have lived anywhere in the world. She chose Guanajuato, about a century after her family fled the state. Award-winning filmmaker [Soco Aguilar](http://socoaguilar.com) has begun production in the state of Guanajuato on “Sandra Cisneros: Neither From Here, Nor There” (“Sandra Cisneros: Ni de aquí, ni de allá”), the first feature documentary about the American and Mexican writer, and author of “The House on Mango Street.” Produced and directed by Aguilar, the film is slated for release in 2028. The title borrows a phrase Spanish speakers use for people who belong to two countries and are fully claimed by neither, a life Cisneros has spent four decades turning into literature. “I’m not making a film about a legend of American literature,” Aguilar said. “This is an unfiltered look at a woman who has always lived on her own terms. It’s a side of Sandra the public hasn’t been invited to see until now.” The legend is well documented. “The House on Mango Street,” published in 1984, has sold more than eight million copies and been translated into more than 25 languages. It is a staple of classrooms across the United States and, according to PEN America, one of the books most often banned from them. Other critically acclaimed works by Cisneros include the novel “Caramelo” and the story collection “Woman Hollering Creek.” Cisneros is a MacArthur Fellow and received the 2015 National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama at the White House. “Sandra says she has one foot in each country and fits in neither, but she sees things from both sides,” Aguilar said. “Most stories move in a straight line. Hers moves in a circle. Roots are patient. They will wait underground for a century if they have to.” Her story begins in the highlands of central Mexico. In 1913, as the Mexican Revolution swept Guanajuato, Cisneros’ grandparents, Eleuterio and Romualda, escaped the village of Loza de Barrera, in the municipality of Silao, and eventually settled in Chicago, where their granddaughter was born. She made her name in San Antonio. In 2013, a hundred years after they left, she settled in San Miguel de Allende, about 100 kilometers from the village. Travel + Leisure readers have repeatedly named San Miguel the best city in the world. This phase of filming follows her in San Miguel, where she is writing her next novel, “Infinito,” and back to Loza de Barrera, where the family’s story began. “Guanajuato is less a backdrop or location than one of the film’s main characters,” Aguilar said. “My goal isn’t to show beautiful vistas. It’s to film the invisible pull this land has on Sandra.” More than 50 hours of footage have already been filmed in the United States and Mexico, including behind-the-scenes moments at The Glimmerglass Festival in July 2025 in New York, when “The House on Mango Street” premiered as an opera; in Chicago; and in Urbana, where Governor JB Pritzker presented Cisneros with the Order of Lincoln, Illinois’ highest honor. The film will include oneiric sequences in the style of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. In one, to be filmed at Guanajuato City’s Teatro Juárez, an opera house inaugurated in 1903, Cisneros becomes the opera singer she once dreamed of being. Around these sequences, Aguilar will weave candid footage, family archives, 2D animation and stop-motion. Aguilar was born in Mexico City and spent much of her childhood in Celaya, Guanajuato. She produced the beloved animated feature “La Leyenda de la Nahuala,” which won the 2008 Ariel Award for best animated feature and recently ended a 10-year run on Netflix. Universal Pictures distributed two more of her features, “Nikté” and “Todo Incluido.” Aguilar met Cisneros 30 years ago in San Francisco, introduced by her mentor, the late documentary filmmaker [Lourdes Portillo](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/lourdes-portillo-dead-las-madres-the-mothers-of-the-plaza-de-mayo-1235878534/). Aguilar also worked with Portillo on “The Devil Never Sleeps,” which the Library of Congress selected for the National Film Registry in 2020. The New Yorker called it “thrilling and psychologically complex” and later named it one of the “films that shaped the art of documentary filmmaking.” The production is supported in part by the Fondo de Fomento a las Actividades Cinematográficas y Audiovisuales of Guanajuato’s Secretariat of Tourism and Identity, the Comisión de Filmaciones de Guanajuato and IMCINE’s Estímulo al Desarrollo de Proyectos. The teaser premieres the first week of December and goes first to those who sign up at socoaguilar.com. Brett Holmes Gray Suit Agency brett@graysuit.org Visit us on social media: [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/nideaquinideallafilm/) [TikTok](https://www.tiktok.com/@nideaquinideallafi) Legal Disclaimer: EIN Presswire provides this news content "as is" without warranty of any kind. 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