Al Más Allá

TRT: 45 minutes, in English and Spanish with English or Spanish subtitles, Color, copyright: 2008, Featuring: Ofelia Medina

When a clueless filmmaker leads a fictional documentary crew through a Mexican beach town to interview local merchants and tour guides, she quickly discovers more than information stands between her and the truth.  A hybrid documentary that creatively blends reportage and narrative techniques, Al Más Allá investigates the contemporary realities of shifting global wealth and drug trafficking along the Mayan coastline of Mexico.


“Al Más Allá, Portillo’s latest, … advances the filmmaker’s self-aware and searching style in an ostensibly playful yet subtle and far-reaching 43-minute investigation.”

– Robert AvilaSF360.org