Jennifer Lopez starrer 'Bordertown' fascinating trivia that will surprise you; read

Bordertown is a 2006 drama movie helmed by Gregory Nava. movie features Jennifer Lopez, Maya Zapata, Martin Sheen, Sonia Braga and Antonia Banderas in pivotal roles. plot of Bordertown was inspired by true story of numerous female homicides.

movie unveils story of an inquisitive American reporter sent in by her American newspaper to investigate murders. Here is a compilation of fascinating trivia about Bordertown:

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Jennifer Lopez’s Bordertown trivia

• Bordertown is loosely based on series of unsolved murders in an industrial border town near El Paso, Texas. Innumerable young women were kidnapped, tortured and murdered in year 1993.
• Jennifer Lopez was awarded Amnesty International’s Artists for Amnesty Award at Berlin International Film Festival for this movie and for examining ongoing murders of hundreds of women in a Mexican border town.
• Bordertown was one of two movies that featured so-called Maquilora Murders, or movie was Virgin Of Juarez which was released in year 2006.

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• In one of scenes of Bordertown, Jennifer Lopez can be seen telling Martin Sheen, “I have been running away from who I am my whole life because you do t want to be Mexican, t in this country.” It is an interesting scene because she is talking to Martin Sheen whose real name is Ramon Antonio, Gerardo Estevez. He opted screen name Martin Sheen because of opposition he experienced by using his birth name. It is said that emotions his character displayed were real during scene since Jennifer Lopez’s words were relevant to his life experiences.
• A maquilora is a Mexican term for a factory operating in a free tre zone which imports raw materials and equipment under tariff-free duty-free conditions n export back to country which y imported from. factories are involved in a number of commercial activities which include assembly, manufacturing and processing.

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• Bordertown’s dedication and closing epilogue stated that movie was me for all missing and murdered women of Juarez.
• Bordertown became Jennifer Lopez’s third project in which she collaborated with Gregory Nava.
• name of newspaper that Jennifer Lopez’s character worked in Bordertown was “Chicago Sentinel” while real name of local paper that Antonio Bandera’s character was editor of “El Sol de Juarez”.

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