Filmmaker Martinez Jitner to deliver campus talk

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Barbara Martinez Jitner

The final event in this spring’s Encore/Distinguished Lecture line-up is a presentation by Barbara Martinez Jitner, a noted writer/director/producer whose work focuses on the lives and contributions of Latin American women.

Martinez Jitner will speak at 8 p.m. Tuesday, March 18, in the Performing Arts Center. Admission is free.

As an executive producer, she played a major part in the creation of PBS’ “American Family: Journey of Dreams.” The series, which debuted in 2002, was the first Latino family drama ever broadcast on a major U.S. television network.

Martinez Jitner also created and directed “La Frontera,” a documentary about Latina factory workers on the United States/Mexico border that served as the inspiration for the feature film “Bordertown” starring Jennifer Lopez.

A popular campus speaker, Martinez-Jitner gives her audiences a moving and personal look at the poverty and gender discrimination that have too often plagued the Latino women sometimes described as an “expendable workforce.”

For more information, please contact:

Anthony Brown,
News Bureau Manager
E-Mail: abrown@nwmissouri.edu
Phone: 660.562.1704
Fax: 660.562.1900

Northwest Missouri State University
219 Administration Building,
800 University Drive
Maryville, MO 64468

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