Isaac Ezban Sets Next Movie ‘Delivery,’ His ‘Most Personal Project Yet,’ Partnering With Sin Sentido Films (EXCLUSIVE)

Multi-prized Mexican filmmaker Isaac Ezban (“The Incident,” “The Similars,” “Párvulos”) is in advanced development on his sixth and “most personal project yet,” a time-travel, sci-fi road movie.

The project is one of 34 works presented at this year’s Frontières International Co-Production Market at the Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal, forming part of its Officila Selection..

Based on an original screenplay by Ezban and co-written by the director and Christian Cueva (“Autos, Mota y Rocanrol”), “Delivery” follows Adan, a lonely truck driver that has spent more than 30 years driving a trailer along the border highways between Mexico and the U.S., obsessed with listening during his journeys to all the cassettes his father recorded for him when he was a child.

When he is unexpectedly fired from the trucking company to which he has devoted his life, and in a sudden burst of madness, he decides to steal the truck and drive for as long as the road allows, crossing the border into the U.S. and Canada and beyond in order to finish listening to all of his cassettes — his most precious treasure and the only thing that truly matters to him in life.

At the beginning of his reckless plan he crosses paths with Nokia, a young teenager who has been abandoned in a border town controlled by the cartel, who also owns cassettes left to her by her family, and who dreams of crossing the border to reunite with them. Fate — or perhaps an even more sinister force — will lead them to embark on an unexpected journey that will bring consequences far more devastating and complex than they could ever imagine.

“Delivery” is co-produced by Red Elephant Films, the company run by Ezban and Miriam Mercado, and Sin Sentido Films, founded by producers Alejandra Cárdenas and Felicitas Arce (“Me Casé con un Idiota,” “Mariachi Gringo,” “Jugaremos en el Bosque”).

Signifcantly, is so far 40% funded, having just qualified for Mexico’s Eficine tax incentive. The team is looking for co-producers to finance the remainder, with the aim of shooting in the second half of 2027.

“‘Delivery’ is not only my most personal project yet and a screenplay I have been developing since 2019, but also, simply, my favorite thing I have ever written, and the movie that I believe represents me the most, so I’m truly excited about winning the Eficine in Mexico, which helped the movie become a reality, and now about being selected at Frontières to come to pitch the project and find the rest of our funding,” Ezban told Variety.

“At first glance, ‘Delivery’ could be described as an elaborate road movie or a time-travel story unfolding
along the highways of the Mexico-U.S. border, but it is much more than that: It is a story about the contrasts of our existence: planning versus spontaneity, routine versus adventure, solitude versus socialization, the company of another person versus the company of a memory, living in the past versus living in the present. It is the story of a man who never belonged — and never will belong — to his own time.

“And what better setting for a story about the borders we create in our relationships with others than the Mexico–U.S. border itself? At the same time, while exploring these new themes that intrigue me,
I continue exploring the one that has always defined my work: the passage of time. And what better
backdrop for a story about time, loneliness and time paradoxes than an endless highway?”