SHOWS

“SEÑORITA EXTRAVIADA” Film Screening

Directed by Lourdes Portillo, filmmaker

Presented by Chicago Cultural Center & DCA Theater

Thursday, September 01
7:00 PM — 9:00 PM
Claudia Cassidy Theater
FREE

Señorita Extraviada is a haunting investigation into an unspeakable crime wave amid the disorders and corruption of one of the biggest border towns in the world.

Following the film, hear remarks from:
Linda Xóchitl Tortolero, Special Projects Director of the National Museum of Mexican Art
Christopher Boyer, local author and professor
Dana Lynn Formby, local playwright

Linda Xóchitl Tortolero is the Special Projects Director at the National Museum of Mexican Art, the largest Latino arts organization in the U.S. Prior to the NMMA, she served as the Development Manager of Mujeres Latinas en Acción, which provides culturally proficient services addressing domestic violence, sexual assault, parent support, homelessness prevention, and Latina leadership. Ms. Tortolero has also practiced law and in 2006 she was awarded the Chicago Volunteer Legal Services Distinguished Service Award. Recently, she curated an exhibit on the femicide in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico entitled Rastros y Crónicas: Women of Juarez that was presented at the NMMA. Ms. Tortolero has a B.A in History of Modern Latin America and Political Science from Brown University and a JD from the Northwestern University School of Law.

Christopher Boyer is Associate Professor of History and Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he gives classes in Mexican history, environmental history, and Latin American Studies. His first book, Becoming Campesinos: Politics, Identity, and Agrarian Struggle in Postrevolutionary Michoacan (Stanford University Press, 2003), explains how the Mexican land reform influenced peasant culture in the 1920s and 1930s. His articles have appeared in the Latin American Historical Review, Historia Mexicana, the American Historical Review, and edited volumes released in Mexico and the U.S. He is now working on a social and environmental history of rural communities, scientists, and timber interests in the forests of central and northern Mexico between 1880 and the present.

Dana Lynn Formby (Playwright) is a resident playwright at Chicago Dramatists and a founding member of Mortar Theatre Company. Her play American Beauty Shop will be read at the Illinois Shakespeare Fest in Bloomington this July and at Steep Theatre in October. Her plays have been read around the country at such places as New York Theatre Workshop, PICT, Victory Gardens, WordBRIDGE, Premiere Stages, Alliance Theatre of Atlanta and Steep Theatre. Dana is the 2008 recipient of the Scott McPherson Playwriting Award. She teaches playwriting at Chicago Dramatists and for the Vet Art Project at the Chicago Cultural Center. She holds an MFA in Playwriting from Ohio University.

PBS Broadcast: August 20, 2002
This event is a collaboration with the award-winning documentary series POV (www.pbs.org/pov).

This event is presented in conjunction with Corazón de Manzana playing August 21 - September 25 at the Storefront Theater.