Filmmaker Ramona S. Diaz is directing a feature documentary based on Alex Tizon's viral 2017 Atlantic essay "My Family's Slave," which detailed how Eudocia Tomas Pullido, known as Lola, served his family without pay for 56 years. The project reunites the story with a fresh creative team nearly a decade after the original article caused a sensation, and marks what Diaz calls the most personal film of her career given her own Filipino upbringing.

Diaz is producing alongside Diane Quon and Janice Chua, with Lee Daniels, who previously optioned the article for a separate fictional adaptation, serving as an executive producer alongside representatives from The Atlantic, Unapologetic Projects and actress Liza Soberano. Tizon, who died in 2017, wrote that Lola was given to his mother as an 18-year-old and brought to America with the family, who called her a slave in all but name. Diaz aims to complete the documentary by late 2027 for an early 2028 release.