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Mamacita / director, José Pablo Estrada Torrescano ; producers, José Pablo Estrada Torrescano, Arne Birkenstock.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Beauty contestants--Mexico.
- Beauty contestants.
- Grandmothers--Mexico.
- Grandmothers.
- Families--Mexico.
- Families.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Biographical films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (76 minutes)
- Place of Publication:
- Vienna, Austria : Autlook Filmsales, 2018.
- Language Note:
- In Spanish with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- Mamacita is an extravagant Mexican beauty queen living in her own kingdom in the company of her loyal servants: gardener, chauffeur, chef, housekeeper and nurses. The 95-year-old lady has turned her house into a castle, hiding the open wounds of a prominent Mexican upper class family behind its stone walls. When Jose Pablo went abroad to study film, Mamacita made him promise to return to Mexico one day to make a film about her life. He conquers his granny's empire like a Trojan horse, discovering the haunted spirits of his own past and the lack of love that his entire clan has suffered from for generations.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed June 29, 2020).
- Nominated 2018 Los Angeles Film Festival, Best Documentary Feature
- Nominated 2018 Zurich Film Festival, Best Film in Focus Switzerland, Germany, Austria
- OCLC:
- 1191033856
- Publisher Number:
- ASP5054261/marc
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