Background
Portillo was born in Mexico and raised in the United States.
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Lourdes Portillo
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Education
Her films have been much studied and analyzed, particularly by scholars in the field of Chicano studies. She apprenticed with the National Association of Broadcast Engineers and Technicians in San Francisco, and graduated with an Master of Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1985.
Career
While the majority of her work is in the documentary film genre, she has also created video installations and written for the stage. She was first exposed to documentary filmmaking while working for a company that made educational films in Los Los Angeles Thereafter she began her career as a producer and director
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Membership
She is a member of the production team of Xochitl Productions, which seeks to "inform the general population through varied endeavors that challenge dominant narratives.".
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