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La Ofrenda:
The Days of the Dead

A scene from La Ofrenda: The Days of the DeadExhibitions

Blue Ribbon
American Film and Video Festival, San Francisco, California, 1990

Best Feature Documentary
The Athens Film Festival, Athens, Ohio, 1989

The 11th Annual Atlanta Third World Film Festival, Bureau of Cultural Affairs, Atlanta, Georgia, October 1991

Eighth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Crossing Boundaries in Feminist History, Douglass College, Rutgers State University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, June 1990

Director's Choice Selection
Black Maria Film and Video Festival, West Orange, New Jersey, December 1989

6th Annual Chicago Latino Film Festival, Chicago, Illinois, September 28 to October 7, 1990

Chicano Art, Resistance and Affirmation, An Interpretive Exhibition of the Chicano Art Movement, 1965-1985, UCLA Wight Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California, September 1990

Cineprobe, Museum of Modern Art, New York City, December 21, 1989 Creteil Women's Film Festival, Creteil, France, March 1989

Cruzando Fronteras/Crossing the Border, Conference of Women Filmand Video Makers, Mexico/United States, Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, November 29,1990

The Denver Museum of Natural History, El Dia de los Muertos, The Life of the Dead in Mexican Folk Art, Denver, October 29, 1990

The Detroit Institute of Arts, Mexican Day of the Dead Exhibition, Detroit, Michigan, October 3 to November 3, 1991

The Documentary Festival of New York, New York, 1989

Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano, La Havana, Cuba, December 16, 1989

Outstanding Cinematic Achivement
The Best Of Category, Documentary Film

The National Latino Film and Video Festival, New York City, August 1991

The 5th Annual Film Arts Festival, Film Arts Foundation, San Francisco, California, November 2-5,1989

The Flaherty Film Seminar, August 1989

Hispanic Heritage Month/Mes de la Cultura Hispana, KCET, Los Angeles, California, September 15 to October 14, 1991

Honors
International Documentary Association, Los Angeles, Californis, 1989

International House of Philadelphia, Neighborhood Film/Video Project, Latin American Visions, 1989

Margaret Mead Film Festival, Museum of Natural History, New York, N.Y., September 1990

Mexico: Splendors of Thirty Centuries, Mexico on Film, Metropolitan Art Museum, New York, October 27, 1990

The Roxie, San Francisco, California, November 5,1989

San Antonio Cinefestival, San Antonio, Texas, January 31 to February 4,1990

Special Jury Prize
Sinking Creek Film Festival, 1990


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