Jane Fonda To Serve As EP On ‘Norita,’ Doc About Courageous Woman Who Challenged Argentina’s Military Regime Over Her Son’s Disappearance
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Two-time Oscar winner Jane Fonda has signed on as an executive producer of Norita ahead of the film’s world premiere June 25 at the Dances With Films festival in Hollywood.
The documentary tells the extraordinary story of Norita Cortiñas who helped found a movement of Argentinian mothers in the 1970s whose children had been “disappeared” by the country’s right-wing military regime.
Cortiñas and other women began protesting against the government in a square in Buenos Aires in April 1977, only a couple of weeks after Cortiñas’s son Carlos Gustavo was abducted and disappeared.
They became known as the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo. What happened to Gustavo was never determined; he, like thousands of others snatched by Argentina’s dictatorship, would forever remain “desaparecidos.” Despite her grief, Cortiñas went on to become “a leading global voice for human rights,” as the New York Times described her.
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