Lourdes Portillo (born 1944) is a screenwriter and filmmaker. While the majority of her work is in the documentary film genre, she has also created [a variety of genres]s and written for the stage. Her films have been much studied and analyzed, particularly by scholars in the field of [Film].
She is an independent filmmaker
Portillo was born in Mexico and raised in the United States. She was first exposed to documentary filmmaking while working f...
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Lourdes Portillo (born 1944) is a screenwriter and filmmaker. While the majority of her work is in the documentary film genre, she has also created [a variety of genres]s and written for the stage. Her films have been much studied and analyzed, particularly by scholars in the field of [Film].
She is an independent filmmaker
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. She apprenticed with the National Association of Broadcast Engineers and Technicians in San Francisco, and graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1985M.F.A. Thereafter she began her career as a producer and director.
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....
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