TropiChat 20: Lourdes Portillo
Moderated by Carlos A. Gutiérrez, Cinema Tropical
Wednesday, May 5 — 7pm EDT
Facebook Live

Born in Chihuahua, Mexico, and raised in Los Angeles, Lourdes Portillo has been making award-winning films about Latin American, Mexican, and Chicano/a experiences and social justice issues for nearly thirty years. Since her first film, After the Earthquake / Después del terremoto (1979), she has produced and directed over a dozen works that reveal her signature hybrid style as a visual artist, investigative journalist, and activist. Portillo’s seventeen completed films include the Academy Award and Emmy Award nominated Las Madres: The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo (1986), La Ofrenda: The Days of the Dead (1988), Columbus on Trial (1992), The Devil Never Sleeps (1994), Corpus: A Home Movie for Selena (1999), Señorita Extraviada (2001), My McQueen (2004), Al Más Allá (2008), and her new short film animated film State of Grace (2020). In 2017 she was recipient of the IDA Career Achievement Award.

TropiChat 20 is a special series of twenty weekly conversations with key Latin American and U.S. Latinx directors and film professionals, presented on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Cinema Tropical