Female Lead Mexican Wrestling FIlms Double Feature | Sponsored by The National Museum of Mexican Art

La mujer murcielago (The Batwoman) 1968 | 4k Restoration by Permanencia Voluntaria, Pasó del Norte Community Foundation, Cinema Preservation Alliance, Academy Film Archive | Chicago Theatrical Premiere

Description: Wrestlers take on female Satan worshippers.

Las mujeres panteras (1967) The Panther Women | 4k Restoration by Permanencia Voluntaria, Cinema Preservation Alliance, FOCINE, Academy Film Archive from the original negatives | American Theatrical Premiere

Description: A sexy, masked crime-fighter battles a mad scientist who's harvesting the glands of wrestlers.

***The double feature is hosted by Chicago Film programmer Raul Benitez and Viviana Garcia-Besne of the Permanencia Voluntaria Archivo Cinematográfico whose family produced these films and that she restored from the original negatives.***

Both films in Spanish with English subtitles