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Directed by: Gregory Nava Written by: Gregory Nava Co-Stars: Jennifer Lopez, Martin Sheen Release Date: 2006 (Europe); Released to DVD January 29, 2008 (US) Filming Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico and Nogales, Mexico “Bordertown” is based on the true story of the murders of over 400 women in Juarez, Mexico since the authorities began keeping count in 1993. Over 100 were serial-type murders targeting young, dark, pretty and poor women. Many worked in the massive assembly-for-export factories that are the mainstay of the Juarez economy, along with drug trafficking. Most of the women were found raped, strangled and dumped at the outskirts of the city in the desert. Jennifer Lopez plays reporter Lauren Adrian who is based in Chicago. As a Latin woman, she feels the pull to travel to Juarez to investigate these murders. Antonio’s character, Diaz Alfonso, is the owner of a local Juarez newspaper. Martin Sheen portrays George Mitchell, Lopez’s editor at the Sentinel. After befriending a young woman who has been attacked but survived, Lauren finds it extremely dangerous to hide Eva but knows it is essential that the story of her attack be published to bring attention to the crimes. Soon she finds herself uncovering a web of corruption that extends to both sides of the border. Much of the shooting took place in various locations around Albuquerque, New Mexico including the local Tribune office, which was transformed into the offices of the Chicago Sentinel for newsroom scenes. A temporary ‘city’ was constructed on the outskirts of Nogales, Mexico to simulate a Juarez shantytown. Additional scenes were shot in Mexicali, along the California border. The movie does
not come without its share of controversy amongst the families of the victims
who question the objective of both this movie and another on the same subject,
which is reportedly in production. They cry for justice and an end to the killings,
which continue to this day.
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