 Señorita
Extraviada, Missing Young Woman tells
the story of the over 200 kidnapped, raped and murdered young
women of Juárez, Mexico. The murders first came to light
in 1993 and young women continue to "disappear" to
this day without any hope of bringing the perpetrators to justice.
Who are these women from all walks of life and why are they
getting murdered so brutally?
The documentary moves like the unsolved mystery it is, and the
filmmaker poetically investigates the circumstances of the murders
and the horror, fear and courage of the families whose children
have been taken. Yet it is also the story of a city of the future;
it is the story of the underbelly of our global economy. From
www.lourdesportillo.com
AND
Q/A WITH DIRECTOR
 Lourdes
Portillo
(writer/director/producer)
Mexico-born and Chicana identified, Portillo's films have focused
on the search for Latino identity. She has worked in a richly
varied range of forms, from television documentary to satirical
video-film collage. Some of her most famous work includes the
"Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo" which was nominated for
Academy's Best Documentary Award and the "Devil Never Sleeps."
In 1994, she received the Guggenheim fellowship in recognition
of her contributions to filmmaking. Undoudtedly, Lourdes Portillo
is a legend in the Chicano arts world as well as the world of
documentary film and social protest art.
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