Influential documentary filmmaker Lourdes Portillo, who used her art as social activism to illuminate the struggles of the working class, has died. The Mexico native, who made 'The Devil Never Sleeps' in 1994, and received an Oscar-nomination for her 1985 film, 'The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo,' died Saturday morning at her home in San Francisco, according to her friend and fellow filmmaker Soco Aguilar.
Among her films were 'The Days of the Dead' ; 'Corpus: A Home Movie for Selena' , about the life and legacy of slain Tejano singer Selena Quintanilla; and 'Señorita Extraviada' , a documentary about the disappearance of young women in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, a film that was honored with a Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. She had been working on a final project with performance artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña in San Francisco.
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