EL EQUIPO's Director Bernardo Ruiz Interviews Filmmaker Lourdes Portillo, featured on Cinema Tropical website

“Filmmaker Bernardo Ruiz recently spoke with the iconic Mexican-American filmmaker Lourdes Portillo about her groundbreaking films, Las Madres: The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo (1985) and Señorita Extraviada (Missing Young Woman) (2001). Ruiz’s documentary El Equipo (2023) chronicles the history of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team and is currently streaming on pbs.org through Independent Lens until January 7, 2024.”

—Cinema Tropical website

 

Las Madres FILMMAKERS Susana Muñoz (left) and LOURDES PORTILLO (right)

 

Mothers of disappeared persons are attacked by argentinian police while protesting in La Plaza de mayo