Lourdes Portillo and Corpus: A Home Movie for Selena featured in Texas Monthly article by Cat Cardenas

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Lourdes Portillo and Corpus: A Home Movie for Selena featured in Texas Monthly article by Cat Cardenas

““There have been other Latina singers and stars, but no one with the magnitude and charisma she had,” Portillo tells me. “She had a tenderness that made girls see themselves in her. They saw the possibility of being Selena.””

—Excerpt from For Decades, Countless Young Latinas Like Me Have Regarded Selena as an Icon. Maybe It’s Time We Took Her off the Pedestal by Cat Cardenas, Texas Monthly, April 2021.

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State of Grace, Sometimes My Feet Go Numb in San Francisco Art Institute's Three Turns Event, January 23-22, 2021→

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State of Grace, Sometimes My Feet Go Numb in San Francisco Art Institute's Three Turns Event, January 23-22, 2021

Lourdes Portillo’s latest short film State of Grace (2020), and her classic short Sometimes My Feet Go Numb (1995), featuring poet Wayne Corbitt, were projected onto San Francisco Art Institute’s tower/campanile and live streamed on January 22 (State of Grace) and January 23 (Sometimes My Feet Go Numb). See videos of Three Turns events here: Three Turns videos: Jan 22-24, 2021

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A new interview with Lourdes Portillo, and Spanish-subtitled Mirrors of the Heart on Corrientes website→

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A new interview with Lourdes Portillo, and Spanish-subtitled Mirrors of the Heart on Corrientes website

Eduardo Makoszay: It is often said that the heart is a constitutive element in your filmography. To start off this conversation, I would like to ask: what is the role of the heart in your cinema?

Lourdes Portillo: For me, more than anything I’ve always considered that cinema has been a weapon and that through the heart, or shall I say, through feelings, and an approach to the truth as we live it at the time of filming, one can move the audience in a positive direction, towards the good…

—Excerpt from Interview by Eduardo Makoszay with Lourdes Portillo

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The Devil Never Sleeps chosen by Library of Congress' National Film Registry as one of the 25 films of 2020!→

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The Devil Never Sleeps chosen by Library of Congress' National Film Registry as one of the 25 films of 2020!

Library of Congress Press Release: Library of Congress' National Film Registry Selections, 2020

Cinema Tropical website: Lourdes Portillo's THE DEVIL NEVER SLEEPS Added to National Film Registry

The New York Times: ‘The Dark Knight’ and ‘The Blues Brothers’ Join National Film Registry

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