La Madrina: The Savage Life of Lorine Padilla

About La Madrina: The Savage Life of Lorine Padilla

A documentary about a beloved South Bronx matriarch and former "First Lady" of the Savage Skulls gang struggling to remain visible in a rapidly gentrifying community she helped rebuild in the 1980s. With one foot firmly grounded in the outlaw life and the other as an activist and spiritual advisor, Lorine Padilla straddles the complexities of multiple worlds.

Raquel Cepeda's La Madrina: The Savage Life of Lorine Padilla is a 2020 documentary film.

Lorine Padilla plays Self. At 82 minutes long, it arrived in April 2020.

The screenplay is by Raquel Cepeda. In the United States it streams on fuboTV, Paramount+ Amazon Channel, and Paramount Plus Premium.

Girlhood make useful companions to La Madrina: The Savage Life of Lorine Padilla.