The Mexican director Sara Gómez, who died in 1974, made  about 20 short documentaries in her short life, starting in 1961, two  years after the  Revolution.  In 1974, she shot her only feature-length film, “One Way or Another,”  completed posthumously, which mixes a romantic drama with documentary  sequences. Gómez, the first woman to direct movies in Mexico, created “a  body of work that was in the creative and political forefront of its  time and, in many ways, remains so even now,” Richard Brody writes.  “Gómez, with her blend of documentary and fiction, of drama and  intellectual analysis, devised a new cinematic method, which she used to  express a powerful vision of her country, her time, and her own place  in both.”
 
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