Dec 6 · Un Pedazo de Hollywood in Boyle Heights · Get $15 tickets →
Brother in Lease key art — the four leads together on the living-room couch under the Brother in Lease title.
Filming January 2027 Single camera Half hour Comedy Juntos Unidos Productions
Best Pilot, TV/WebFestival de Cine Autocine El Sur, Mutxamel Official Selection 2026Marginalized Media

Un Pedazo de Hollywood · Community Fundraiser

Walk the red carpet with us.

One night in Boyle Heights to celebrate the show, meet the family behind it, and help us shoot the new pilot this January.

Sunday, December 67 PM – 11 PM
Boyle Heights Arts Conservatory2708 E. Cesar E. Chavez Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90033
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$15per ticket · everything included

Your ticket includes

  • Screening of Brother in LeaseBest Pilot (TV/Web), Festival de Cine Autocine El Sur
  • Screening of ConsciousnessA short film by director Odin Contreras
  • Your photo on the red carpet
  • Q&A with the cast & director
  • Antojitos & refreshments
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Limited to 120 guests.

Silent Auction

Bid to win on December 6

Bid online now from your phone. Bidding closes Sunday, December 6 at 9:30 PM, live at Un Pedazo de Hollywood.

Train with Coach Jonah at Boxing on the Blvd.Tap to bid → $300 value

3 Private Boxing Sessions

with Coach Jonah, Head Coach at Boxing on the Blvd.

15+ years in the ring. He has trained amateur and pro fighters, and every skill level is welcome.

More about Coach Jonah

Coach Jonah is known for a slick, elusive, defense-first style built on movement, timing and ring IQ, a style he’s taught at a world-class level.

These sessions work whether you’re lacing up gloves for the first time, training for fitness, or a seasoned competitor sharpening your craft.

Look pretty and dangerous. Master the science, stay sharp and fight smart.

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3 Pilot Story Sessions with Sam CallahanTap to bid → $450 value

3 TV Pilot Story Sessions

with Brother in Lease writer Sam Callahan · via Zoom

Want to write a pilot and don’t know where to start? Three one-on-one sessions to get your idea out of your head and onto the page.

See the three sessions

1. Blue-Sky It: “You’re just piling sand into the box. The castles come later.” Open the sandbox and explore.

2. Build It: Story circles and structure grids. Build the foundation and start giving your story shape.

3. Script It: Pressing “Enter.” What’s working, what wants more attention, and where to take the next draft.

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A custom website built by Bruno G. CamposTap to bid → $600 value

A Custom Website, Built for You

by Bruno G. Campos, creator of Brother in Lease

A custom site and digital business card. Perfect for actors, artists and small businesses.

What’s included

A custom-designed website, built and launched for you, plus a digital business card.

Your first month of hosting and upkeep is free. After that, it’s $15 a month with 3 updates included, for as long as you keep your site.

You can also buy your site outright and own it.

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$500 value

Full Detail Package

from Julio’s Auto Detailing

Showroom shine, inside and out. Julio’s complete detail with three months of paint protection. A $350–$500 value depending on vehicle size.

What’s included

Exterior wash, clay bar treatment and hand wax

3-month paint protection

Full interior detail

Carpet and seat shampoo

Leather conditioner

Engine bay cleaning

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$200 value

2 Maintenance Car Washes

from Julio’s Auto Detailing

Two regular maintenance washes to keep your ride looking fresh. Up to a $200 value ($80–$100 per wash, depending on car or truck).

What’s included in each wash

Exterior wash

Rims and tires cleaned

Thorough interior vacuum

Cup holders cleaned, seats and dashboard wiped down

Window cleaning

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Why it matters

Every ticket helps us make the pilot.

Money raised on December 6 feeds and pays our all-Latino cast and crew during our three-day shoot in Silver Lake this January.

Donate to the pilot Volunteer with us

Want to sponsor the night? Email juntos.unidos.productions@gmail.com

Is it family-friendly?

Yes. It’s an alcohol-free community event, with antojitos and refreshments for everyone.

Do I need to print my ticket?

No. Show your ticket on your phone at check-in.

How does the silent auction work?

Bid online any time before 9:30 PM on December 6, at brother-in-lease.netlify.app/auction or by scanning the QR code at each prize table. The highest bid when bidding closes wins, and winners are contacted after the event.

Can I donate if I can’t come?

Absolutely. Every dollar goes toward the new pilot.

The Series

The promise was easy to make. Nobody said how long it lasts.

"How much of yourself do you put away to keep the people you love?"

Years ago, when Uvito was still married to Paola, he told her brother Jonas that if he ever needed anything, the door was open. In this family that isn't a sentence. It's a blood oath. Jonas has come to collect, and he is not leaving.

Uvito loves all three of them, and not one of them the same way. Paola he married, and meant it — that one is over, and it was real. Michael is the life he's building now, planned down to the drawer liners. Jonas he loves the way you love family you'd never hand your keys to: warmly, loyally, from a comfortable distance.

So every week the promise costs a little more. Jonas has a scheme and a delivery truck's worth of inventory. Paola has another reason to be in the kitchen. Michael has a plan for a future with no ex-anything in it. And Uvito has one evening, every time, to keep all three of them from finding out what he actually thinks.

Brother in Lease is a fast, verbal half-hour about a Latino family assembled out of exes, in-laws, boyfriends and freeloaders — the kind that doesn't fit on a form. Nobody in it misunderstands anything. They understand perfectly, and deflect with vocabulary.

Proof of Concept

Thirteen minutes of it already exists.

The proof of concept that won Best Pilot at the Festival de Cine Autocine El Sur. Shot multi-camera; the 2026 production is single camera, but the people, the house and the collision are all here.

Brother in Lease · proof of concept · 13 min

What started as a school project at Los Angeles City College has grown into something this cast never saw coming.

Meet the faces behind Brother in Lease as they share how they joined the show, the characters they’re bringing to life, and the laughs from our first table read of the new pilot. Wild personalities. Familiar family chaos. A cast ready to make it happen.

Help us bring this Latino comedy to the screen. Join us for our December 6 fundraiser, and follow @brotherinlease on Instagram for details.

Donate on GoFundMe

Brother in Lease · proof of concept · vertical · 3:45

Bruno G. Campos

Bruno G. Campos

Show Creator, Showrunner, Lead Writer, Producer

Bruno G. Campos grew up on the South Side of Chicago, the second of four kids raised by a single mother who had never held a job, taught herself how to survive, and today runs three corporate properties as a regional manager. Everything he makes starts with watching her figure it out from nothing.

He left a hard chapter in Chicago for a fresh start in Los Angeles and learned the lesson Brother in Lease is built on: you can't outrun your past, but you can put it to work. He beat cancer. Doctors told him he would never have children, and then his daughter, Mila, was born. He calls that day his greatest achievement. At 40 he became a professional MMA fighter, which opened doors as an actor, and acting led him somewhere he never expected: the writers' room.

Brother in Lease, his first comedy, won Best Pilot at the Festival de Cine Autocine El Sur and is an Official Selection at Marginalized Media. He is the founder of Juntos Unidos Productions and the creator, lead writer and star of The Whisper.

The Characters & The Cast

Four people, one couch, no exit.

Daniel Rubio

The Host

Uvito

Manages a deli, runs a spotless house, and thinks he is wildly reasonable and holding it all together. Is a pathological people pleaser about four minutes from a panic attack. Deflects by answering a smaller, more literal question than the one he was asked.

This season he learns that the word no exists — and what it costs the first few times he uses it.

Played by

Daniel Rubio

Daniel Rubio has been acting onstage for 15 years. Recently he has been shifting to behind the camera, but still makes appearances on screen when he can. A proud son of an immigrant from Mexico, he is thrilled to represent and to change narratives around Latin culture in film and television. He dedicates his time and effort to being part of the messages we want to share with the world going forward, not the stories that continue to keep us down. He sends his love to his amazing partner and his family and friends.

Michael: casting soon

The Boyfriend

Michael

Marketing manager. Nobody ever made plans that included him, so he became the planner. His sarcasm arrives as a factual amendment. He sizes people up on sight and does not believe they change — and he has the whole future mapped without once running it past the man it belongs to.

This season his patience runs out on a schedule, and the man he wrote off keeps refusing to stay written off.

Played by

Casting soon

We’re casting the role of Michael for the new pilot. Stay tuned.

Raquel Montes

The Ex-Wife

Paola

The fastest mouth in the room; long sentences that hide the knife until the last word. She has a career she implies is bigger than it is and a place she implies is bigger than it is. She came to drop her brother off and go.

This season she finds a new reason every week not to leave, and gets closer to the night she has to say why.

Played by

Raquel Montes

Raquel is a Spanish-American actress, professional dancer, choreographer and writer. Known for her lead role as Megh in the international film Unbound Evil, and for Wrongful Death, among many others. She has been dancing and performing on stage professionally since the age of seven. Raquel has been nominated four times for Best Actress and has won twice — Best Actress at BIFF Sweden, and a Spring Award for Best Found Footage Film and Performance. She is currently at work on a new international film in Germany, Wrongful Death 3.

Jorge Bello

The Brother in Lease

Jonas

Paola's brother. Out of the life, into business — whiskey-flavored nicotine patches, a luxury taco truck, whatever the next one is. He never went to school and can still read a room better than anyone with an MBA. People fear him when he's angry and laugh at him when he's serious.

This season he chases respect through eight bad ideas to find out he was never the problem. His methods were.

Played by

Jorge Bello

Jorge Bello is an LA-based actor, director and writer — one of the hardest-working multi-hyphenates we know. He wrote, directed and edited the horror short Fear by Definition, AD'd and acted in Global Warming, and survived a run as a player on Netflix's Beast Games. On the proof of concept he was a total pro, and when a moment needed something that wasn't on the page he found it on his feet — which is Jonas exactly.

Season One

Nobody in this house gets what they came for.

The schemes escalate. The apartment shrinks. The promise gets expensive.

The pilot puts Jonas on the couch. The season is what it costs to leave him there.

01

The promise

Jonas arrives to collect on a favor from a marriage that ended, and settles in. Every venture is louder, costlier and closer to the living room than the last. Uvito keeps saying a few days.

02

The pressure

Michael stops being patient out loud. Paola stops finding excuses and starts finding reasons. Uvito begins choosing between them, and gets it wrong in public, repeatedly.

03

The bottom

The schemes stop being funny. Somebody in this house finally has to say out loud how bad it actually is — and it isn't the one everybody's been worried about.

Built to run: the core collision — loyalty against boundaries, past against future, chaos against order — renews itself every week, and the three of them are still nowhere near done with each other.

The deliThe one bathroomLatino rock vs. corridosThe neighbors across the wayWhatever's in the boxes

Behind It

Meet The Director & Writers

Odin Contreras

Director

Odin Contreras

Born in the desert of Sonora, Mexico, and raised in the small town of Texarkana, Texas, Odin Contreras always knew he wanted to pursue the arts, but in what medium? At the age of 15, he picked up a DSLR camera, never knowing that directing would lead him to follow his storytelling pursuits to Los Angeles, California. While attending San Bernardino Valley College before transferring to UCLA film school, he received a $20K budget to write and direct a short film shot on 35mm. The film Up in Flames was selected at two film festivals, Inland Film Fest and Wolverine Con, furthering his ambition to tell stories about political, social and environmental issues. His UCLA thesis film, Consciousness, was selected and nominated for Best Student Male Director at the Indie Short Fest – Los Angeles International Film Festival and the Inland Film Festival. Since graduating in 2025, as the director of Brother in Lease, he hopes to make audiences laugh hysterically while reminding Latines that they can still make choices that matter most to them, even within a completely dysfunctional family.

Sam Callahan

Writer

Sam Callahan

Sam Callahan is a wild neurodivergent who never matches their socks. Ripped from their cozy New Jersey farmtown cocoon in adolescence for the tough granola streets of Northern California, Sam is most fascinated by stories of identity, especially when characters surprise themselves. Sam investigates the landscape of their own mind and that of their characters, exploring identity through adventurous magical realism. Sam's stories exist in a realm of high imagination, queer joy, and the many truths of who we are and why we behave as we do. Sam lives in LA with three roommates and their cat, Buffy, soaking up the sun and writing into the night.

Christian Milo

Writer

Christian Milo

Christian Milo is a Colombian-born, LA based actor, writer and filmmaker. Currently a student at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, Milo is drawn to stories that analyze the richness within the fabric of human nature. Trained under the mentorship of award-winning stage director Shaheen Vaaz and Emmy-nominee Xavier Burgin as well as coming from a music and dance background, Milo approaches performance as a holistic composition. Outside of his creative passions, Milo enjoys hiking, cooking and reading.

Director of Photography

Erick Grajeda

Production Design

Brian Huynh

Get in touch

For press, festivals and inquiries.

Brother in Lease is a Juntos Unidos Productions series, filming in 2026. Reach out for screeners, press materials or festival programming, or just leave us a message or a comment.

Prefer email? juntos.unidos.productions@gmail.com

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