Ric Roman Waugh is set to direct Tijuana Straits.

Straits, a story based the novel written by Kem Nunn, is a multifaceted, visual story of a world of outcasts, which takes place in California and Mexico’s along the Pacific Ocean.

The main character is a reclusive ex-surfer who is drawn into helping a Mexican woman who is being hunted down by a hired killer from the cartels. The cartels want to silence her before she exposes corruption in Tijuana.

Waugh started as a Hollywood stuntman and recently directed a true-to-life prison movie, Felon, starring Val Kilmer.