Retratos de una búsqueda = Portraits of a search / Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografia ; Conaculta ; Foprocine - México ; un documental de Alicia Calderón ; [director, Alicia Calderón ; screenplay, Alicia Calderón and José Miguel Tomasena ; producer, Karla Uribe ; executive producers, Karla Urbe and Alicia Calderón].

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Guerrero Borrego, Natividad, interviewee.

Aguilar, Guadalupe, interviewee.

López Corrales, M. (Margarita), interviewee.

Calderón, Alicia, director, screenwriter.

Tomasena, José Miguel, 1978- screenwriter.

Uribe, Karla, producer.

Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía, film production company.

Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (Mexico), film production company.

Fondo para la Producción Cinematográfica de Calidad, film production company.

Women Make Movies (Firm), publisher.

Class of 1891 Department of Arts Fund.

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Drug control--Mexico.

Drug control.

Disappeared persons.

Murder.

Mexico.

Murder--Mexico.

Disappeared persons--Mexico.

Mexican-American Border Region.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Motion pictures, Mexican.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (74 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in.

Other Title:

Portraits of a search

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Women Make Movies, 2015.

Language Note:

In Spanish with subtitles in English.

System Details:

DVD-R, NTSC, Region 1; widescreen (1.85:1 aspect ratio) presentation.

digital optical

widescreen (1.85:1)

NTSC

video file DVD video region 1

Summary:

"More than 20,000 people disappeared in Mexico during the horrifically violent war on drugs waged by former President Calderon. With each missing person, a family is left behind in a desperate search to get answers from a government that is suspiciously ambivalent. Putting a human face on the most harrowing of statistics, director Alicia Calderon courageously captures the stories of three mothers - Natividad, Guadalupe, and Margarita - as they search for their children who have gone missing. One mother constantly retraces the last steps of her son, combing empty fields for his body; another travels all the way to Washington, DC, to plead for US intervention; and the last simply tries to forget the emptiness and raise her now-motherless grandson. In one of the most powerful documentaries about the human casualties of the Mexican narco-wars, these women's stories are among the many that stand for truth and justice for the 26,000 missing people in Mexico today. With their lives now completely devoted to seeking out the truth, they pursue any avenue possible, in the face of an indifferent government which considers their loved ones to be "collateral casualties" of the drug war."--Container.

Participant:

Natividad Guerrero, Guadalupe Aguilar, Margarita López.

Credits:

Cinematographer, Dalia Huerta Cano; editors, Juan Manuel Figueroa and Sofía Gómez Córdova; sound designer, Mario Martinez Cobos; music, Mario Osuna; postproduction, Pedro de la Garza.

Notes:

Videodisc release of the motion picture produced in 2014.

Includes public performance rights for University of Pennsylvania only. Streaming not allowed without a separate license. Resource Sharing not permitted.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1891 Department of Arts Fund.

OCLC:

929499141