Portillo, Lourdes
Portillo, Lourdes
Mexican-born filmmaker. Born in Chihuahua, Mexico; graduate of San Francisco Art Institute, 1978.
Came to US (1960); founded her own film company, Xochitl Productions (1976); released 1st short film, Después del terremoto (After the Earthquake, 1979); focused on the mothers who disappeared in Argentina in Las Madres: The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo (1985) and Tejano singer Selena in Corpus: A Home Movie for Selena (1999); also filmed Columbus on Trial (1993), La Ofrenda: The Days of the Dead (1989), and Señorita Extraviada (Missing Young Women, 2001), about the unsolved sex murders of hundreds of young women and girls in Juárez.
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