Tierra Madre is a 2010 film made in Tecate

Tecate

Tecate is a small city in Baja California, Mexico and the municipal seat of Tecate Municipality. It is located on the border with Tecate, California, United States in the San Diego–Tijuana metropolitan area. There is a small port of entry betwixt the sister cities that serves as a calmer...

 and Tijuana

Tijuana

Tijuana is the largest city on the Baja California Peninsula and center of the Tijuana metropolitan area, part of the international San Diego–Tijuana metropolitan area. An industrial and financial center of Mexico, Tijuana exerts a strong influence on economics, education, culture, art, and politics...

, Mexico

Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

. It was directed by Dylan Verrechia

Dylan Verrechia

Dylan Verrechia is a French-Danish-American filmmaker. A graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, Verrechia's works have screened at over 50 film festivals around the world, including the Atlanta Film Festival....

, and co-written by Aidee Gonzalez based on her real life, with original music by Nortec Collective

Nortec Collective

Nortec Collective is a musical ensemble formed by various individual one or two man production projects. The group came together in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. Their sound genre mixes electronica with musical elements and instrumentation of Tambora and Norteño music, resulting in the nortec ...

 and Paco Mendoza.

The movie has been screened at over 25 film festivals and won the Jury Award for Best Feature Film at the Reeling Chicago Lesbian and Gay International Film Festival http://reelingfilmfestival.org/, the Jury Award for Honorary Feature Film at the Festival Internacional de Cine de Moreliahttp://www.variety.com/article/VR1118026221?refCatId=13, the Diversity Award for Best Feature Film at the Barcelona Gay and Lesbian International Film, the Outstanding Achievement in Foreign Feature Award at the Williamsburg International Film Festival, the Cinesul Award for Best Feature Film at the Cinesul Ibero-Americano Film Festival, the Golden Palm at the Mexico International Film Festival, the Honorary Mention Prize at the New Jersey Film Festival

New Jersey Film Festival

The New Jersey Film Festival is New Jersey's largest continuing public film series devoted to "experimental, offbeat and influential cinema". It is held in New Brunswick, New Jersey.-History:...

, and the Silver Lei for Excellence in Filmmaking at the Honolulu International Film Festival.

Synopsis

Tierra Madre is based on Aidee Gonzalez’s true life, a woman living on the Mexican border towns of Tecate and Tijuana, determined to raise her children with her female partner. This narrative feature makes the strong case of the strength, the independence and the solidarity that exits among women of all ages.

External links

• Corre Camara
• Los Angeles Times
• http://mexico.cnn.com/entretenimiento/2010/10/19/una-pelicula-narra-la-supervivencia-de-una-madre-stripper-en-tijuana CNN Mexico
• http://www.dontlabelit.com/issues/DLI_APRIL_2010.pdf Don't Label It!
• http://poderedomex.com/notas.asp?id=50664 Poder Edomex
• Morelia International Film Festival