¡Felicidades & Congratulations "¿Dónde Anda Lupita?”!

Analco Studios' 2024 documentary “¿Dónde anda Lupita? Tras la pista de la Virgen de Guadalupe won a Pantalla de Cristal award in the documentary category!

Analco's own Gustavo Martínez Contreras produced this eight-episode documentary series for Mexico City public broadcast, Capital 21. The series takes on one of the of the most important religious and cultural icons in Latin America and the Latinx world: Our Lady of Guadalupe.

¿Dónde Anda Lupita? (Where's Lupita?) approached Guadalupe in the least conventional way; we're not discussing whether her apparitions are true or the divinity of the cloak she's painted on.

Instead, we approached her figure through a multitude of lenses. We saw her as a representation of the Divine Feminine that's present in many cultures, places and spiritual practices. Our first episode was about Lupita and her presence in Palestine and in Islam. We also delved into Queer (LGTBQ+) spirituality, indigeneity, and much more.

This series was born out of an instagram project and personal journey I've been on for almost a decade: @whereslupita. What started as a collection of photos has now become this living community with all these stories from people who live at the margins of "proper religion" but under the cloak of Guadalupe, the Divine Mother who promised unconditional love when she appeared.

Through her history, Guadalupe Tonantzin (the Divine Mother of the indigenous Nahuatl people) has been a symbol of resistance, even becoming the flag of many revolutionary causes, most prominently the Zapatista movements in the 1910s and the 1990s. Also, many Chicana feminists have used her image as a symbol of liberation.

The Pantalla de Cristal (Crystal Screen) Film Festival is an international film festival that takes place every year in Mexico City. This award recognizes Latin American public media productions. The Pantalla de Cristal Festival started in 1999 and has been held continuously since.

You can watch the whole series here.