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Bordertown Gregory Nava [videorecording]=

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Summary language: English Original language: English Subtitle language: English, Spanish Series: David W. Foster CollectionPublication details: Spain Möbius Entertainment El Norte Productions Nuyorican Productions 2008Description: 1 videodisc (ca. 114 min.) sound, color. 4 3/4 inLOC classification:
  • PN1997 .B673 2007
Summary: From case cover: A powerful story if the life on the border between the United States and Mexico, Bordertown is based on the tragic accounts of hundreds of women working in American-owned factories who have been brutally raped ad murdered in Juarez, a city gripped by fear. the attacks have been covered up by the local authorities, and still continue today. When editor of the Chicago Sentinel George Morgan sends ambitious reporter, Lauren Adrian, to Juarez, Mexico to investigate the murders, what she finds is the story of a lifetime. Eva (Maya Zapata), a young woman who was raped and left for dead in the desert, is the only woman to survive an attack. Unable to go to the police for help, she turns to a local newspaper run by Diaz Alfonso, former friend and colleague of Lauren's. Hiding Eva is incredibly dangerous, but Lauren knows that publishing her story is the only way to expose the truth behind the murders. She is determined to find Eva's attackers but soon finds herself immersed in a dangerous web of corruption that extends to both sides of the border. From IMDb: Lauren, an impassioned American reporter for the Chicago Sentinel heads to Juarez, a Mexican bordertown, in order to investigate a series of mysterious slayings involving young factory women from all over Mexico. As she discovers hundreds of victims, she gains the trust of local factory workers but falls into danger.
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DVD - Video DVD - Video SILC Learning Support Services DH132-DVD-A: DVD Cabinet A PN1997 .B673 2007 Available English audio. Optional Spanish subtitles. Optional English subtitles for the deaf or hard-of-hearing. 001726

Special features include:
- Exposing teh Juarez Murders: The Making of Bordertown
- "Dual Injustice"-- a WITNESS.org Documentary Short
- "La Frontera" - A Documentary Short from Executive Producer Barbara Martinez Jitner

From case cover:
A powerful story if the life on the border between the United States and Mexico, Bordertown is based on the tragic accounts of hundreds of women working in American-owned factories who have been brutally raped ad murdered in Juarez, a city gripped by fear. the attacks have been covered up by the local authorities, and still continue today.

When editor of the Chicago Sentinel George Morgan sends ambitious reporter, Lauren Adrian, to Juarez, Mexico to investigate the murders, what she finds is the story of a lifetime. Eva (Maya Zapata), a young woman who was raped and left for dead in the desert, is the only woman to survive an attack. Unable to go to the police for help, she turns to a local newspaper run by Diaz Alfonso, former friend and colleague of Lauren's. Hiding Eva is incredibly dangerous, but Lauren knows that publishing her story is the only way to expose the truth behind the murders. She is determined to find Eva's attackers but soon finds herself immersed in a dangerous web of corruption that extends to both sides of the border.

From IMDb:
Lauren, an impassioned American reporter for the Chicago Sentinel heads to Juarez, a Mexican bordertown, in order to investigate a series of mysterious slayings involving young factory women from all over Mexico. As she discovers hundreds of victims, she gains the trust of local factory workers but falls into danger.

DVD video; Dolby Digital 5.1; surround; NTSC; Region 1; 1.78:1 as 16:9 widescreen.

English audio. Optional Spanish subtitles. Optional English subtitles for the deaf or hard-of-hearing.

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