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Barbara Martinez Jitner is known for American Family (2002), Selena (1997) and Behind the Mask of Zorro (2005).
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As part of our Diversity Lecture Series, author, filmmaker and human rights activist Barbara Martinez Jitner is interviewed by Mindy Ysasi, Chairperson of th...
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Feb 14, 2007 · When they began shooting “Bordertown,” the new Jennifer Lopez film about the hundreds of murdered women of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, director Gregory Nava and executive producer Barbara Martinez...
Filmmaker and Human rights activist, Barbara Martinez Jitner, is the inspiration for the Jennifer Lopez film Bordertown. Martinez Jitner posed as a worker in a factory on the Mexican border in order to uncover a dark world of grueling poverty and sexual abuse that has led to over 400 women being murdered in the border town of Juarez, Mexico.
Sep 12, 2007 · Martinez Jitner, whose research in Juarez provided inspiration for the film, gives a moving and personal look at the border town of Juarez, Mexico, which has been nicknamedThe Capital of Murdered Womenbecause more than 400 women, many of whom worked in American-owned factories created by NAFTA, have been found raped, mutilated and murdered ...
Barbara Martinez Jitner, filmmaker and human rights activist, was prompted by the present-day femicide in Juarez, Mexico, to pose as a factory worker to investigate. Her experience led to the making of her critically acclaimed documentary La Frontera and the movie Bordertown, which has raised awareness of the atrocities.
Filmmaker and human rights activist, Barbara Martinez Jitner attended CSU Monterey Bay to share her inspirational and informative lecture on, “Femicide at our Border: To be a Woman in Juárez is a Death Sentence.”
