Oscar-Contending ‘Frida’ Team On Tracking Down Famed Mexican Artist’s Treasures In Unexpected Places
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deadline.comFor their Oscar-contending documentary Frida, director Carla Gutiérrez, producer Katia Maguire and team conducted extraordinarily detailed research into artist Frida Kahlo, a quest that extended from Mexico City to an attic in Cape Cod, Mass.
The east coast venture took them to the doorstep of historian Hayden Herrera, author of the definitive study Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo.
Herera thought the Smithsonian Institution had already picked up all her materials for the book, but it turned out that wasn’t entirely true.
Up the ladder the filmmakers climbed. “In the very back corner of the attic, we found a box that said ‘Frida’ on it,” Gutiérrez recalls.
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