Abstract
Unlike any other, the annual debutante ball in Laredo, Texas is part of a lucrative month-long festival honoring George Washington's birthday. Las Marthas follows two young women as they prepare for this elaborate rite of passage: Laurita, a 13th-generation debutante descended from Laredos original Spanish land grantees who questions debutante society's class system geared toward girls like herself; and Rosario, a high-achieving, Mexican-raised and U.S.-schooled outsider struggling to understand the elite society's unspoken rules.Tracing the events origins back to 1898, the film works to unravel why a town like Laredo with a population that is 98% Mexican feels such affinity for Americas Founding Father. Despite history and all odds, the celebration perseveres and flourishes thanks to the Mexican American girls who wear this gilded tradition in the form of elaborate colonial gowns. Las Marthas is a beautifully drawn and sometimes humorous, coming of age portrait of these two young women as they navigate this complex tradition in a time of economic uncertainty and political tension over immigration and border relations between the US and Mexico.
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Subject
Contributors
Ibarra, Cristina (director), Ibarra, Cristina (producer), Ploss-Campoamor, Erin (producer), Gutierrez, Linda Leyendecker (interviewee), Gutierrez, Carla (editor), Martinez, Edwin (director of Photography), Gonzalez-Martinez, Sonia (editor), Majzlin, David (composer), Undocumented Films, Inc (producer), Women make movies (distributor)
Duration
00:53:36 (HH:MM:SS)
Language:
English
Target or Intended Audience
adult/continuing education, higher education, high school (grades 10-12), college
Copyright Holder
| Name | Women Make Movies |
| Role | distributor |
| Telephone | 212-925-0606 |
| Address | 462 Broadway, STE 500, New York, NY 10013 |
| [email protected] |
Copyright Date
2013-01-01
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