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El General

Filmmaker Natalia Almada brings to life audio recordings she inherited about her great-grandfather, General Plutarco Elías Calles, a revolutionary general who became president of Mexico in 1924.

Series

POV, Global Voices

Premiere Date

July 20, 2010

Length

90 minutes

Funding Type

Co-Production

Awards & Recognition

Winner

2009 Sundance Film Festival - Directing Award for US Documentary

Natalia Almada

Producer/Director

Natalia Almada was born in Mexico. Her directing credits include All Water Has a Perfect Memory, an internationally recognized experimental short, and Al Otro Lado, an award-winning feature documentary about immigration and drug trafficking that appeared on P.O.V. in 2006. Her work has screened at Sundance, the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Biennial, as well as on ARTE and PBS. Almada is a 2008 Guggenheim fellow and has received support from Creative Capital, the Sundance Institute and the MacDowell Colony, among others. She shares her time between Mexico and Brooklyn.
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