Newly minted indie banner Monterrey Pictures has tapped Nat Christian to pen and co-produce its first feature, "
700 Hill."
Project, targeted for a spring shoot in Mexico and West Virginia, centers on a newly immigrated Mexican family and an Appalachian woman who marries into it in a small coal-mining town in the 1940s. Pic retraces the family's tragic history since the days of the Mexican Revolution in the 1910s.