Films and Videos. Lourdes Portillo's production company Xochitl - it's mission, history, and contact information.
Location-specific art and video installations by Lourdes Portillo.
Filmography, film and video awards, and a personal interview by Fred Salas. Click to order film and videos.
Articles about Portillo's work and its context. Links to scholarships and film festivals. Email us for more information at < portillo1@mindspring.com >


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Articles about the work, context and influence of Lourdes Portillo:

Steadfast Love and Subversive Acts -- The Politics of La Ofrenda: The Days of the Dead by Kathleen Newman

Lourdes Portillo -- You Can Only Make a Good Film If You Look Inward from Mapping Multi-Culturalism, edited by Avery F. Gordon, Christopher Newfield.

Una Muerte Observada. Apuntes sobre El Diablo Nunca Duerme, de Lourdes Portillo -- Blas Martinez

Verdad de la Ficción Sobre El Diablo Nunca Duerme, de Lourdes Portillo -- Jorge La Ferla

"Differential Consciousness" in Despues del Terremoto by Rosa Linda Fregoso from Nepantla in Gendered Subjectivity.

Screening Resistance -- A conversation between Lourdes Portillo and Rosa Linda Fregoso.

Chicano Film Practices -- Despues del Terremoto - by Rosa Linda Fregosa from Chicanos in Film.

Film as Reflection by Lourdes Portillo -- from Sources of a Distinct Majority.

Death as the Ultimate Other by Michelle Stewart

Impassioned Voice For An Unsung Few by Sergio de la Mora

Terrisimo del Género en la Frontera de Ua-Mexico by Sergio de la Mora

Cruzando Los Límites by Norma Iglesias

Señorita Extraviada Breaks the Veil of Silence by Pedro Reynoso Valdez

Videofagia: Señorita Extraviada by Farail Aviña

Women Rally for Missing by Macarena Hernandez

Exposing a Plague of Killings by Anne Marie O'Connor

Lourdes Portillo y Los Crímeness de Ciudad Juárez by Juan Rodríguez Flores

"Making Evil: Crime Thrillers and Chicano Cinema" in Denver Law Review Vol. 78 by Juan Velasco

The Devil Never Sleeps and Other Films by Lourdes Portillo, by Rosa Linda Fregosa. University of Texas, 2000.


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