Lourdes Portillo

Lourdes Portillo

Lourdes Portillo (born 1944) is an American screenwriter and filmmaker. While the majority of her work is in the documentary film genre, she has also created video installations and written for the stage. Her films have been much studied and analyzed, particularly by scholars in the field of Chicano studies. [cite web
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She is a member of the production team of Xochitl Productions, which seeks to "inform the general population through varied endeavors that challenge dominant narratives." [cite web
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Biography

Portillo was born in Mexico and raised in the United States. She was first exposed to documentary filmmaking while working for a company that made educational films in Los Angeles. [cite web
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Work

Portillo's films tend to focus on Latin America and the Latin American experience in the United States. Her film debut, for example, the 1979 "Después del Terremoto", focuses on the experience of a Nicaraguan refugee of the 1972 Managua earthquake in San Francisco. It was followed by "", a 1986 co-production with the Argentine director Susana Blaustein Muñoz which documented the actions of Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, a group of Argentine women who gather weekly at the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires to remember their children that were murdered or "disappeared" by the military regime.

Other films have centered on Day of the Dead celebrations, Selena, the Female homicides in Ciudad Juárez, and AIDS.

She has also collaborated with the Chicano comedy troupe Culture Clash on two productions: "Columbus on Trial" and "". She has also collaborated with the San Francisco Mime Troupe.

Awards

Portillo's films have won numerous awards, mostly from regional film festivals. [cite web
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Filmography

*"After the Earthquake/Después de Terremoto" (1979)
*"" (1986)
*"" (1988)
*"Vida" (1989)
*"Columbus on Trial" (1992)
*"Mirrors of the Heart" (1993)
*"Sometimes my Feet go Numb" (1994)
*"The Devil Never Sleeps/El Diable Nunca Duerme" (1994)
*"This is Your Day/Hoy es tu Día" (1998)
*"" (1999)
*"Conversations With Intellectuals About Selena" (1999)
*"" (2001)
*"Señorita Extraviada/Missing Young Woman" (2001)
*"My McQueen" (2004)

References

Further reading

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External links

* [http://www.lourdesportillo.com/ Official site]
* [http://www.vdb.org/smackn.acgi$artistdetail?PORTILLOL Lourdes Portillo] in the [http://www.vdb.org/ Video Data Bank]
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