Juchítan Queer Paradise

Located near the border with Guatemala, the Mexican town of Juchitán is home to the Zapotec Indians, who have shown remarkable tolerance towards homosexuals. According to a legend, God gave Vicente Ferrer, the patron saint of Juchitán, a bagful of queers. Everywhere he travelled – Colombia, Central America, Guatemala- he left behind a homosexual. In Juchitán, however, his bag came undone, and they all fell out at once…

Patricio Henríquez

A director for Chilean television, Patricio Henriquez settled in Montreal after the coup d'état against president Salvador Allende in 1973. After a first film, Yasser Arafat et les Palestiniens (1980), Patricio began directing feature stories for Radio-Québec. From 1980 to 1993, he worked on dozens of stories for Quebec's benchmark international news magazine, Nord-Sud. In 1995, he directed a docudrama, Les filles aux allumettes on the exploitation of women workers. Patricio collaborated on the Rainmakers series and co-directed the documentary L'Afrique sans remèdes (1996). After founding Macumba International with Robert Cornellier and Raymonde Provencher, Patricio directed episodes of the Living in the City series on some of the planet's supercities.

In 1998, he completed the highly acclaimed The Last Stand of Salvador Allende, a film on the last day in the life of the Chilean president. The following year, he signed Images of a dictatorship, a unique look at life in Chile under Pinochet. Since 2000, Patricio has directed and produced several films in the Extremis collection on social injustice around the world. In 2002, he completed Juchitan, Queer Paradise, a film on a gay community in Mexico, as well as a highly publicised Extremis episode on the death penalty.