Sundance Film Festival, Special Jury Prize
	Human Rights Watch International Film Festival, Nestor Almendros Prize
	International Documentary Association's (IDA), Distinguished Documentary Achievement Award
	Thessaloniki Film Festival, FIPRESCI Award to Best Foreign Film
	Cinequest, Audience Award for Best Documentary
	Images Du Nouveau Monde, Prix Tempete Radio-Canada Award for Best Feature Film
	Festival International de Films De Femmes in Creteil, Audience Award
	Malaga Film Festival, Grand Prize Best Documentary

"What this documentary does best is empower the families of victims...crafted with the conviction that media has the power to effect social change -- that in telling this story, [Portillo] is perhaps helping to prevent future incidents."
Miriam Markowitz
WireTap Youth Magazine

“…Serves as an example for girls and women struggling against justice.”
Lu Henry
Mujeres Latinas En Accion

“An outstanding and innovative documentary, in both content and form…open[s] up new space to tell an important and ignored story about the social value placed on women's lives along the border, a story that has much broader implications. Senorita Extraviada is an excellent documentary, and is highly recommended for courses in border relations, Latino/a and Latin American Studies, women's studies, American Studies, sociology, ethnic Studies, political science, and criminal justice.”
Joe Austin, Director
Youth and Popular Culture Conference

"...Filmmaker Lourdes Portillo steps into this chilling murder mystery with a haunting documentary…"
Anne-Marie O'Connor
Los Angeles Times

"...Moving account of an outrage that has continued for nearly a decade, with no end in sight. It's more gripping than 'Law & Order' and more tragic than anything a dramatist could invent."
Joanne Weintraub
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

"She (Lourdes Portillo) won a 1986 Oscar nomination for 'Las Madres: The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo,' a film about political dissidents in Argentina, studied AIDS and Latinas in 'Vida' and explored the legacy of Tejano singer Selena in 'Corpus.' But nothing she's done has been as wrenching as 'Señorita Extraviada…”
Edward Guthmann
San Francisco Chronicle

"'Señorita Extraviada' is further proof that she (Lourdes Portillo) is one of the most important filmmakers chronicling the Latino Experience today."
Mike McDaniel
Houston Chronicle

"The film has already won several awards, including a special jury prize at this year's Sundance Film Festival. Even more rewarding, Ms. Portillo said, is that the film may lead to action."
Mireya Navarro
The New York Times

"Telling the tale mainly through the words of the victims' relatives and news footage, Portillo recounts what is a haunting story of corruption and injustice but also one of courage in the face of nearly insurmountable odds."
Minerva Canto
The Orange County Register

"...a stunning portrait of the callousness, willful ignorance and sheer incompetence of police investigating a horrifying, nearly decade-long string of killings in Mexico."
Basem Boshra
Montreal Gazette

Maquiladora Health & Safety Support Network

POV's "Senorita Extraviada" Website

"Deadly Frontier" by Jo Tuckman

"250 Murders Prompt Anti-Violence Campaign"

A Series of Articles on Juarez on the Escaping Hades Website A Series of Articles on Juarez on the Escaping Hades Website

Lourdes Portillo's Website