Oscar-Nominated Documentary Filmmaker Lourdes Portillo, Subject Of Academy Museum Retrospective, Says She’s Working On Her “Last Project”
deadline.comThe Academy Museum of Motion Pictures wraps up its 10-day major retrospective of filmmaker Lourdes Portillo’s work later today, with a screening of her 2001 documentary Missing Young Woman (Señorita Extraviada).
For over four decades, the Mexican-born, Chicana-identified Portillo has crafted nuanced film and video works that center the emotions and circumstances of diverse Latinx experiences.
Oscar-nominated for her documentary feature Las Madres – The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, “Portillo’s works defy categorization, slipping easily between docu-fiction, experimental video, and the melodrama of telenovelas,” as described by the Academy Museum’s interim director, film program, K.J.
Relth-Miller. One of the few Chicana/o filmmakers of the 1970s still working today, Portillo, 79, has evolved her craft and expanded her interests to reinvent the form and ethos of activist filmmaking with her exceedingly independent approach to production and storytelling.
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