Lourdes Portillo
1. Lourdes Portillo is a Chicana film maker who was born in Mexico, but identifies as Chicana. She started her career in film as a first camera assistant, but really made her own debut with the narrative "After the Earthquake/ Despues del terremoto". She creates films and documentaries that are concerned with the subjectivitiy of Latinas.
2. Some of Lourdes' 'important' films are "After the Earthquake/Despues del terremoto", "The Mothers of the Plaza De Mayo", "La Ofrenda, the day of the Dead", "Seniorita Extraviada" and "Colombus on Trial".
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4. Her work is SAID to be shown in academic settings and film festivals across the U.S., however, I hadn't heard of Lourdes Portillo until taking a Chicana feminist class, and in my experience, she is not as well known amongst the public as the reference article suggests.
5. Finding Lourdes Portillo on the internet was easy, because I knew her name, and she is a prominent Chicana film maker with many award winning films.
Main article used to complete this blog located at: http://www.sfai.edu/People/Person.aspx?id=571&navID=6§ionID=2&typeID=1
Lourdes Portillo's Photograph
Another great website is: http://www.lourdesportillo.com/index.html