Film director Lourdes Portillo on Saturday, at the age of eighty, among his three sons and sister, a at his home in San Francisco died – writes a Deadline.
According to the newspaper, Portillo was an unusual artistic talent who combined filmmaking and activism. THE Las Madres – The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo his documentary film was also nominated for an Oscar.
According to KJ Relth-Miller, the Academy Museum’s interim director “Portillo’s works defy categorization, easily slipping between docu-fictions, experimental videos and telenovela melodramas”.
The director was born on November 11, 1943 in Chihuahua, Mexico, shortly after he immigrated to Los Angeles with his parents and four siblings. His activist activities were related to immigration, which he talked about in more detail in 2023.
I live in San Francisco, there’s a certain activism that goes on here. And in those years, the 1970s, there were a lot of immigrants from Latin America, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and a lot of injustice was done to them. And of course I tried to help in whatever way I could
Portillo said then.
