Portillo’s most recent work uses a range of narrative elements to explore the realities of shifting global wealth and drug trafficking along the Mayan coastline of Mexico. Real conversations with tourist guides, merchants, and American expats about the corruption and violence caused by drug trafficking are interspersed with stylized narrative scenes that reveal documentary filmmakers’ heroic preoccupations.
Lourdes Portillo
Director
The Infiltrator66%
Target Number One62%
Narco Cultura70%
Blow73%
Romancing the Stone67%
Blood Diamond75%
Layer Cake69%
Tricked: The Documentary61%
Revenge64%
Bad Boys for Life71%
Coffy66%
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre79%
American Made68%
Miami Vice60%
No Country for Old Men79%
Pulp Fiction85%
Foxy Brown63%
Cocaine Cowboys72%
The Mosquito Coast63%
American Gangster75%
