Still from: Corpus: A Home Movie for Selena
ORGANIZATIONS & ACTIONS
Featuring organizations and individuals actively working on the issues featured in Lourdes Portillo’s films:
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NI EN MORE
NI EN MORE is a social innovation project merging political activism, fashion and art. Founded by the artists Lise Bjorne Linnert (Oslo, Norway) and Jane Terrazas (Juárez, Mexico), along with Human Rights activist Veronica Corchado (Juárez, Mexico).
At its core is a women’s sewing studio in Juárez, Mexico, that offers a safe environment, fair wages, education and training to women living in vulnerable conditions.
NI EN MORE shows what on-the-ground solutions look like, and continues to inspire others to build the world we want to see.
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WRITER & JOURNALIST
ALICE DRIVER
Writer and journalist ALICE DRIVER has made a career reporting on the most pressing issues of our time: immigration, gender equality, the US-Mexico border, climate change, the COVID pandemic. Based in Mexico City, Alice continues to shed light on the issues of femicide and violence against women that originally inspired Lourdes to make her film Señorita Extraviada/Missing Young Woman.
Alice’s writing is an ongoing model and inspiration for what activism looks like in print and digital form.
Logo and Photo courtesy of mihistoria
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MiHISTORIA
A living archive of Latina/Chicana/Hispana/Indigena/Afro-Latina stories
MiHistoria.net is a collaborative storytelling project that bears witness to the Latina experience, strengthens inter-generational ties, builds bridges of understanding between urban and rural women, and empowers Latinas to become the authors of our own stories.
The idea for MiHistoria was born in 2010 with the Chicana/Latina Foundation’s The Power of Storytelling workshop, and was co-founded by storyteller, facilitator and curator Albertina Zarazúa Padilla and documentary filmmaker and consultant Laurie Coyle.
BOOKS
Recordar para perdurar:
La participación del cine en la reparación de experiencias traumáticas
Written by Bruno López Petzoldt
Publisher: CALAS & Bielefeld University Press/transcript
DESCRIPTION: El cine constituye una poderosa herramienta cultural que opera de múltiples maneras en el rescate de memorias, así como en la reparación colectiva y conceptualización interdisciplinaria de experiencias traumáticas en comunidades devastadas por sistemáticas violaciones a sus derechos fundamentales. Hace perceptibles las prolongaciones de silenciadas o legitimadas violencias políticas tanto en el individuo como en el tejido social trastornado por perturbadoras marcas que desbaratan la existencia y la convivencia. Las expresiones cinematográficas no hacen referencia al ayer únicamente, sino que, sobre todo, cuestionan las pautas convencionales empleadas para articular pasado, presente y futuro a fin de explorar horizontes posibles. Como detonadoras de memoria y generadoras de conciencia, robustecen diferentes modi memorandi que tratan el pasado violento demasiado activo aún.
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Miradas de Mujer:
Encuentro de Cineastas y Videoastas Mexicanas y Chicanas
Edited by Norma Iglesias and Rosa Linda Fregoso
Davis & Tijuana: University of California, Davis, Chicana/Latina Reseacrh Center & El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, 1998.
Lourdes Portillo:
The Devil Never Sleeps and Other Films
Edited by Rosa Linda Fregoso
The first study of Portillo and her films, this collection is collaborative and multifaceted in approach, emphasizing aspects of authorial creativity, audience reception, and production processes typically hidden from view. Rosa Linda Fregoso, the volume editor, has organized the book into three parts: interviews (by Fregoso and Kathleen Newman and B. Ruby Rich); critical perspectives (essays by Fregoso, Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano, Sylvie Thouard, Norma Iglesias, and Barbara McBane); and production materials (screenplays, script notes, storyboards, etc.).
By describing the production constraints Portillo has surmounted, Fregoso deepens our appreciation of this gifted filmmaker's life, her struggles, and the evolution of her art.
Abecedario de Juárez:
An Illustrated Lexicon
By Julián Cardona and Alice Leora Briggs
Translations by Alice L. Driver
Illustrations by Alice Leora Briggs
Illustrated with evocative drawings by artist Alice Leora Briggs, this glossary uses the vocabulary created by the violence in Juárez, Mexico, to tell the stories of the people who live there.