Perdida 2009 After being told that her family had made some of the worst films in the history of Mexican cinema, Viviana spent many years ashamed of that legacy and distanced herself from everything that the Calderon family had ever done But a chance encounter sparked her interest and led to a 3 year quest to uncover the story of a family that had been involved in all aspects of the film business in Mexico and the United States theaters, distribution, and production whose rise and fall throughout the 20th century closely mirrored that of Mexican cinema as a whole, a once powerful film industry that was now virtually nonexistent The story that Viviana discovered through old film reels, photographs, newspaper articles, clips from the familys film vaults, and interviews with the survivors of Mexican cinemas golden eras included tales of romance and stories about movie and music legends like Ricardo Montalban and the mambo king Damaso Perez Prado, and allowed her to make peace with a legacy of film pioneers