THE WOMAN OF STARS AND MOUNTAINS

Rita Patiño, an indigenous woman from Mexico, was found by a human rights organization inside a Kansas psychiatric hospital, where she had been involuntarily confined, for 12 years, despite the fact that the hospital authorities were never able to determine who was this woman, where did she come from, or what language she spoke. After the consequences of confinement and medical negligence, Rita returned to Mexico, where she lives with Juanita, her niece and primary caregiver, in a context of precarious economic possibilities. This documentary is a moving portrait of the lives of these two Tarahumara women, that questions the multiple forms of racism and discrimination that indigenous women in Mexico and the United States face.

SANTIAGO ESTEINOU

 

Documentary filmmaker and producer from Mexico City. He studied cinematography in Mexico’s Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica and Temple University, in Philadelphia. Later he completed a master's degree in Human Rights and Democracy at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences. Among the documentaries he’s made: Los Años de Fierro (The Years of Fierro), 2014 and Mukí Sopalírili Aligué Gawíchi Nirúgame (The Woman of Stars and Mountains), 2022.
 

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