One of the most interesting retrospective of the first edition the Women's Film Festival (FEM), which starts Wednesday in the Center Gabriela Mistral, the documentary is Lourdes Portillo. Mexican-American filmmaker with a long history, has become one of the filmmakers that has ventured into the issues of Latino culture in the U.S. and the role of women in this country. He was even nominated for an Oscar for best documentary for his research on Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, a film made in 1986.
Born in Chihuahua, but raised in San Francisco, Portillo will be at the FEM with four of his films: Miss lost (2001), The Beyond (2008), The Devil Never Sleeps (1994) and cited Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo . All films will be shown in the GAM and the Institute of Communication and Image (ICEI).
Originally invited to personally present their shows in the FEM, the filmmaker finally could not participate because of scheduling problems, but welcomes the establishment of this first festival dedicated to the genre in the country. "I have the desire to see new works by Chilean filmmaker, which fortunately are exhibited in this festival, which can be the first step more outward and spread of Chilean women's film, "he explains.
-When you started making movies, how you solved the complexity of being female and Latino in the U.S.?
"I started making films when I was 21. It was pure luck, living in Los Angeles and a friend invited me to help you with your film, I knew nothing about film, but the process and the films I liked, so I decided at that time to devote to studying and making films. Being a woman and a Mexican in the U.S. at that time meant living a life exclusion. He lived in a country extremely racist and sexist and that was my reality, but within that reality I kept trying to make movies. But I knew that my tenacity make it, and it was.
Without being a militant film, Lourdes Portillo's films speak of human rights, social injustice and the tense coexistence of Latino and Anglo cultures, which is a privileged witness (" I found it very interesting to imagine my people in movies I ever saw in American cinema. ") One example is his celebrated documentary Miss lost, which investigates crimes of women in Ciudad Juárez.
"I am pleased to have raised his voice when it (the crime) was discovered recently. I do not think that a film is able to affect any change within a society, but with a film itself can raise awareness in many people and so begins the change. The truth of the femicide in Ciudad Juárez is feel overshadowed by more powerful men in Mexico today, "he explains.
optimistic about the growing number of women filmmakers, Portillo dce that "voices Many women and their point of view is becoming part of the film ... finally. I applaud them all and how much support they can, but we need to know that there is still a long way to go, "he adds.
LOURDES PORTILLO BACK
"The Beyond", 43 min. 2008
March 18, GAM SEM Chamber 1, 15.00 hrs.
March 18, ICEI, 18.30 hrs.
"El diablo nunca duerme", 82 min. 1994
16 de marzo, ICEI, 18.30 hrs.
19 de marzo, GAM Sala SEM 1, 15.00 hrs.
"Las madres de la Plaza de Mayo", 64 min. 1986
18 de marzo, GAM Sala SEM 1, 15.00 hrs.
18 de marzo, ICEI, 18.30 hrs.
"Señorita Extraviada", 74 min. 2001
March 17, GAM SEM Room 1, 15.00 hrs.
March 17, ICEI, 18.30 hrs.
Source: The Third
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