Editor Carla Gutiérrez makes her directorial debut
An intimate feature doc. Recorded December 3, 2024, 33 minutes.
Mexican artist Frida Kahlo
FRIDA covers 40 years in the life of an artist whose exquisite self-portraits revealed the ecstasy and pain of her interior world and now some of her art sells for as much as $62 million. Peruvian born Gutiérrez speaks with Westdoc about her own connection with Kahlo’s art - as a woman, an artist, and a Latina - her struggle with learning English as a teen, and the importance of using Kahlo’s own words, in Spanish, for the film’s narration. FRIDA the documentary is available on Amazon Prime.
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