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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.”
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...
Oct 28, 2010 · 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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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.
Mar 7, 2008 · Documentary filmmaker Barbara Martinez Jitner discussed the mistreatment, working conditions and murders of 400 young Mexican female workers near the cities of Juarez and Chihuahua, Mexico, to a full audience of Cal Poly faculty and students Thursday morning at Vista Grande Café.
Barbara Martinez Jitner is known for American Family (2002), Selena (1997) and Behind the Mask of Zorro (2005).
From the stage of the Fountain Street Church (24 Fountain NE), Jitner shed light on the situation of young female Mexican factory workers that have been raped and murdered in the bordertown of Juarez, Mexico, which mirrors other US-Mexico bordertowns.
