About Vizu Productions
Vizu Productions is the home of quirky, feel-good comedies that don't shy away from the hard stuff.
We make films for the ones who have always lived between different worlds. Between cultures, between neighborhoods, between who our characters were raised to be and who they're becoming. Our stories are rooted in the everyday tensions of identity: the push and pull of assimilation, the weight of class, colorism and the complicated journey to find love and community. We tackle all of it with warmth, humor and an honesty that hits close to home.
Founded by writer and director Aurora Jimenez, Vizu Productions is built on the core belief that everyone deserves to be seen - not in spite of the contradictions that define them, but because of them.
Through films like “Lecciones de mi Madre” where a daughter is at a funeral and thinks back at the life lessons her mother taught her about love and adapting. In “subURB”, Ruby leaves everything she knows in Watts to start over in a wealthier suburb, only to find that upward mobility comes with its own kind of culture shock and that there are difficulties in every zip code. Perspective is everywhere, and no address can outrun it.
Our films will have you chuckling while inevitably feeling truly understood.
Based in Los Angeles. Shaped by a many communities.
Aurora Jimenez, Director and Writer
Aurora Jimenez is a first-generation Chicana writer and director from Los Angeles. Her mission is to highlight the complexities of identity that come from living between two worlds. Through nostalgic storytelling, bright colors and introspective conversations, her films capture the realities of being human in an ever-changing world.
Drawing from her own experience of belonging to many places yet feeling uncertain of her true home, Aurora crafts character-driven stories where protagonists navigate tough decisions on the fly. Her films balance playful, dark humor with genuine emotional weight and relatability.
Looking ahead, Aurora is driven to create grounded, feel-good content starring people who look like her and her community. As a brown-skinned Latina, she uses her work to challenge colorism by expanding the types of stories she shares onscreen.
In her own words
On filmmaking background
"I've written and directed four short films, two after college. I'm currently developing a fantasy proof-of-concept for a feature and a dark comedy web series."
On why she became a director
"The films that made me want to direct were the ones about people living in the in-between — unassuming outsiders who felt deeply human. Amélie, Lost in Translation, Ghost World. I felt seen by those films, but I wanted to create something that included people of my background in similarly toned films/series."
On a show that inspired her
“A TV show that really inspired me was Insecure on HBO (2016). It was set around the neighborhoods I grew up in but shown through a real human lens, culturally specific to the creator and super funny.”
On where she grew up
“Different parts of adjacent neighborhoods in LA (Compton, Florence & Watts), then I moved to Norwalk, CA, around my sophomore year. In between these neighborhoods, up until the end of 6th grade, I would live in Mexico for short periods and did some grade school there.”