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Beyond the Beyond
2008. USA/Mexico. Lourdes Portillo. 43 min.
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After the Earthquake
1979. Lourdes Portillo, Nina Serrano. 27 min.
New York City premiere
Wednesday, June 27, 2012, 7:00 p.m.
Theater 2 (The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2), T2
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Beyond the Beyond
2008. USA/Mexico. Directed by Lourdes Portillo. With Ofelia Medina, Kyle Kibbe and Jose Arauso. Portillo’s most recent work uses a range of narrative elements to explore the realities of shifting global wealth and drug trafficking along the Mayan coastline of Mexico. Real conversations with tourist guides, merchants, and American expats about the corruption and violence caused by drug trafficking are interspersed with stylized narrative scenes that reveal documentary filmmakers’ heroic preoccupations. In Spanish; English subtitles. 43 min.
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After the Earthquake
1979. Written and directed by Lourdes Portillo, Nina Serrano. With Vilma Coronado, Agnelo Guzman, Leticia Cortez. This dramatic short follows Irene, a young Nicaraguan immigrant living in California, as she faces new challenges—particularly in adjusting to the cultural, political, and economic differences between life in the U.S. and life in Nicaragua. In Spanish; English subtitles. 27 min.
In the Film exhibition Lourdes Portillo: La Cineasta Inquisitiva
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