The Brothers Ortiz
Ongoing Series | Crime, Drama
BASED ON
The upcoming podcast “The Brothers Ortiz” from Campside Media
Quick Hitter
Two brothers grow up on the poor side of a Gulf Coast town. One leaves for the Air Force, where he learns how to be a cop. Thirty years later, he’s the fourth highest-ranking lawman in Texas. The other brother, four years younger, stays behind. He sells drugs, shoots a man, goes to jail, then to prison. Thirty years later, he’s a silla, a chairman, in Puro Tango Blast, a notorious Texas prison gang with ties to Mexican drug cartels.
Anchored by a true-crime thriller, THE BROTHERS ORTIZ explores the wide, gray expanse between traditional notions of black and white; the gravity of a family’s generational dysfunction; and how a man can be haunted by a legacy he creates for himself. Two taut biographical narratives intertwined into a singular story of brotherly love, loss, and, maybe, redemption. This is the remarkable true story of Larry and Gabe Ortiz, climbing opposite ladders in the increasingly explosive world of West Texas criminal justice.
Larry is the criminal, Gabe is the justice.
With
PRODUCING PARTNERS
Status
In Development
