Quite a lot, it turns out. Premiering at last year’s Sundance Film Festival, Frida won the Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award for U.S. Documentary. Streaming now on Amazon, it was nominated for the Truer Than Fiction Award at the upcoming Independent Spirit Awards.
“It feels really great to have gotten here,” Gutierrez tells Art & Object. “I’m so proud of the film, and I’m enjoying any recognition it gets, and especially the team I put together. The creative team is all Latinx, except for two people, so that has been really special.”
A cradle-to-grave biopic, Frida covers the great artist’s early life with her German father and mestiza mother, her schoolgirl and formative years, and the legendary bus accident that left her in pain for the rest of her days. Husband Diego Rivera plays a charismatic if caddish role in her life which was defined by pain, frustration, passion, and loneliness up until her premature death at the age of 47.