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Lourdes Portillo, ‘The Devil Never Sleeps’ Director, Dies at 80


Lourdes Portillo, a Mexican filmmaker known for the 1994 documentary 'The Devil Never Sleeps,' died Saturday in her San Francisco home. She was 80.

Lourdes Portillo, filmmaker of the 1994 documentary “The Devil Never Sleeps” and a visual artist, investigative journalist and social activist, died Saturday in her San Francisco home. Portillo focused her work on writing, directing and producing film and videos that centered the emotions and circumstances of Latin American, Mexican and Chicano experiences. It focuses on key projects of hers including “Las Madres: The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo,” “La Ofrenda: The Days of the Dead,” “The Devil Never Sleeps” and “Señorita Extraviada,” or “Missing Young Woman.”

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