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FILM FESTIVALS
AUDIENCE PRIZE WINNERROMA DOC FEST 2007
The film has been selected by the Forum des Images (Paris) to be in their permanent collection as from 2008.
Turin Gay and Lesbian Film Festival – April 2007
Roma Doc Fest – May 2007 – Winner Audience Award
Florence Queer Festival – October 2007
Diversa. International GLT Festival of Buenos Aires – October 2007
Festival Internacional de Cine Lésbico y Gai de Madrid – November 2007
Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano in Cuba – December 2007
Melbourne Queer Film Festival – March 2008
San Diego Latino Film Festival – March 2008
Festival Les Reflets d'Amérique Latine - March 2008
Outfest Peru. Lima, Peru - April 2008
Festival DIVEerGenti. Bologna, Italy - May 2008
Festival de Films Gays & Lesbiens de Nantes, France - May 2008
New York Latino Film Festival/HBO, New York - July 2008
Philadelphia Gay & Lesbian Film Festival - July 2008
CRAZY SHOWING OF "LES TRAVESTIS PLEURENT AUSSI" IN HAVANA
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VIDEO ABOUT THE SHOWING OF "LES TRAVESTIS PLEURENT AUSSI" IN HAVANA, CUBA, AT THE "FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DEL NUEVO CINE LATINO AMERICANO". SPANISH. NO SUBTITLES.
The film was broadcast several times in the first months of 2007 by Planète, the n°1 documentary-only channel of French cable.
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SYNOPSIS
Paris. In a small side street, seconds away from the Place the Clichy, two dirty and dingy hotels face one another. Behind their façades, the lives of marginal transsexuals from Ecuador take place. They all work as prostitutes in the bois de Boulogne. Among them, we meet “Mujeronâ€, (the “Big Womanâ€, in Spanish), a former boxer who chose prostitution and a solitary life in order to survive and help his family back home. We also meet the exuberant and ironic “Rominaâ€, who seems to have made her dreams come true thanks to prostitution: a woman’s body, a housewife’s routine, a small flat and some money. Two parallel existences that are apparently poles apart but will in fact unite in one tragic ending.
Both light-hearted and tragic, switching from flirtatiousness to misery, from optimism to fatalism, the story of Romina and Mia balances between joyful complicity and solitary distress.
Television:
REVIEW BY FRANCIS CORNU PUBLISHED IN LE MONDE, DECEMBER 2006
(Translated from French)
They are not Brazilian but Ecuadorian, but it's the same thing. They have been rejected by the misery of their shanty towns and the refusal of their uncertain sex. Mia and Romina have joined the small community of Latin American transsexuals and transvestites that wander between the Place de Clichy and the bois de Boulogne in Paris. They work as prostitutes to
survive and to send money to their families. They cry too, just like everybody else, though “more than othersâ€.
During three years, Sebastiano d’Ayala Valva has won their trust and collected their intimate thoughts. A lot of patience and concentration must have been necessary to obtain this statement from Mia: “Life is like roulette. You must play even if you don’t always win. Otherwise there would be no suffering or misery. We’re playing the game of life. You have to know how to win or loseâ€. The first images of Mia are in stark contrast with this phrase. Mia is a black and muscular giant, who looks like a heavyweight lifter, whose carnavalesque make-up and breast implants – inevitably ridiculous – will hardly fool you. And on top of this, Mia is illiterate.In spite of his discretion, the director went beyond appearances and the average viewer’s reserves. Another achievement is the following conclusion by Romina : “We have a sad ending. Generally, a transsexual dies of cancer, AIDS, aesthetic surgery or at work, when we get attacked. At best we end our lives alone, old, with no money and without having found love. Maybe it’s destiny or it’s the price we have to pay to have gone against the will of
God.â€
There is no commentary in this documentary, co-produced by Planète. It is an example of relative sobriety. One must avoid the use of the word “poignant†but sometimes it is inevitable, though the viewer is free to make his own analysis.
Books:
FESTIVAL DEL NUEVO CINE LATINO AMERICANO - CUBA - DECEMBER 2007 - FIRST SHOWING WITH MARIELA CASTRO AND MEMBERS OF CENESEX
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TURIN GAY AND LESBIAN FILM FESTIVAL - "DA SODOMA A GOMORRA" - APRIL 2007 - Special guest : Mujeron!
Heroes:
FESTIVAL DIVERGENTI - MAY 2008 -
The director with organizers Porpora Marcasciano and Luki Massa and special guests Eva Robin's and Vladimir Luxuria.
