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The Devil Never Sleeps

The Devil Never Sleeps is a “whodunit” documentary about family secrets. Filmmaker Lourdes Portillo travels to Mexico to learn the truth about her wealthy uncle’s death.

Series

Global Voices

Premiere Date

September 30, 1997

Length

60 minutes

Funding Type

Co-Production

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Winner

1995 International Documentary Association (IDA) - Best Five Docs of the Year

Lourdes Portillo

Producer

Lourdes Portillo has lived in the U.S. since 1960. Her credits include the Oscar-nominated documentary feature, Las Madres: The Mothers Of The Plaza De Mayo, as well as La Ofrenda: The Days Of The Dead; Columbus On Trial; Mirrors Of The Heart for the PBS series, Americas; The Devil Never Sleeps for Independent Lens; Corpus: A Home Movie For Selena and Senorita Extraviada for POV; and 13 Days, a multimedia piece for the San Francisco Mime Troupe.