[PEN-L:29491] "Senorita Extraviada" on PBS

[Diane Monaco <dmonaco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

["Senorita Extraviada," a new release by WOMEN MAKE MOVIES by the Academy
Award nominated Lourdes Portillo, will be airing Tuesday on the PBS series
P.O.V....a description of the film below]


WMM NEW RELEASE SENORITA EXTRAVIADA TO AIR ON THE ACCLAIMED PBS SERIES, P.O.V.

More than 250 women have been murdered on the US-Mexico border town of
Ciudad Jurez. Their deaths remain a mystery, their histories almost
completely erased. Like most women living in Jurez, many of the victims
were factory workers employed at multinational plants known as
maquiladoras.  As the violence escalates, the international community has
continued to ignore what is arguably one of the most overlooked human
rights issue today.

Academy Award nominated filmmaker, Lourdes Portillo, gives voice to the
lost women of Jurez in her latest critically-acclaimed documentary SENORITA
EXTRAVIADA, MISSING YOUNG WOMAN. Recipient of the Special Jury Prize in
Documentary at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival, this gripping and
emotionally charged film makes its television debut on the PBS series,
P.O.V., Tuesday, August 20 (check local listings).

Visually poetic, yet unflinching in its gaze, SENORITA EXTRAVIADA unravels
the layers of complicity that have allowed these murders to continue.
Dubbed the "City of the Future" by pro-NAFTA advocates, Ciudad Jurez has
served as an economic and urban model for developing nations throughout
Latin American. Yet behind the city's international mystique and high
profile job market, there exists a murky history of grossly underreported
human rights abuses and violence against women. Relying on what Portillo
comes to see as the most reliable of sources-the testimonies of the
families of the victims- SENORITA EXTRAVIADA documents a two-year search
for the truth in the underbelly of the new global economy.

HELP SPREAD THE WORD:

	** SEE THE FILM
	P.O.V., Tuesday, August 20
	www.pbs.org/pov/senoritaextraviada

	** TELL YOUR FRIENDS
	Alert your friends and colleagues to the broadcast via email, newsletter
announcements, and 	web site links.

	** ACT NOW
	Visit Lourdes Portillo's site
www.lourdesportillo.com/senoritaextraviada/links.htm

For a schedule of P.O.V. programs on your local PBS station, visit
www.pbs.org/pov.  For sales and rental information on SENORITA EXTRAVIADA,
please visit the Women Make Movies on-line catalogue and website  at
www.wmm.com/Catalog/pages/c579.htm.

SENORITA EXTRAVIADA is part of a growing collection of films and videos by
and about Latina and Latin American women. Also part of this unique series
is ESCUELA by Hannah Weyer, the award-winning documentary that poignantly
profiles the struggles and triumphs of a young Mexican-American migrant
farmworker, which airs on P.O.V. August 27.

Established in 1972 to address the under-representation and
misrepresentation of women in the media, Women Make Movies is the largest
distributor of women's films and videos in the world.  Women Make Movies
launched its 30th Anniversary at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this
year (www.wmm.com/news/anniversary.htm).  The year-long series of events
will celebrate the diversity, vitality, quality and breadth of creativity
in WMM's catalogue of more than 500 films and videotapes.  Anniversary
festivities will consist of extensive exhibitions and retrospectives, both
domestic and international; premiere screenings of new releases in upcoming
festivals; and participation in noteworth academic conferences.