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The Life and Times of Frida Kahlo is a documentary film about the legendary Mexican painter and the world of art, culture, and politics that converged in her yellow kitchen. The film is an intimate biography of a woman who gracefully balanced a private life of illness and pain against a public persona that was flamboyant, irreverent, and world-renowned. Frida was an eyewitness to a unique pairing of revolution and renaissance that defined the first half of the twentieth century. Through the prism of her life and art the film will explore the ancient culture of Mexico, the Mexican Revolution, the wildfire of Communism that burned through Latin America in the 1920s and '30s, the innovators in painting, photography, filmmaking, writing and poetry that congregated in Mexico City, and the revival of interest in popular culture for which she has become a symbol.
Thousands of photographs, paintings, newsreels, and home movies, many of which have never been published or broadcast, will be gathered from collections across the United States and Mexico to tell this story. Friends, family members historians and scholars will reminisce and reflect on the power and significance of this unique life. The Life and Times of Frida Kahlo is currently in production with an anticipated national PBS airing in spring 2004. The film is a co-production of Daylight Films and WETA, public television in Washington DC. It is produced and directed by Amy Stechler and co-produced by Victor Zamudio-Taylor and Maia Harris. Funding is provided in part by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, PBS, and Latino Public Broadcasting. For further information please go to www.weta.org/frida or contact maia@daylightfilms.org.
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