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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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 “Mujeron”, (the “Big Woman”, 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 “Romina”, 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.
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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 others”.
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 lose”. 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.”
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.
Kitaplar
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!
HBO/NEW YORK LATINO FILM FESTIVAL - JULY 2008
FLORENCE QUEER FESTIVAL - OCTOBER 2007 - THE DIRECTOR AND MUJERON
Kahramanları
FESTIVAL DIVERGENTI - MAY 2008 -
The director with organizers Porpora Marcasciano and Luki Massa and special guests Eva Robin's and Vladimir Luxuria.
Hakkımda: Director Sebastiano d'Ayala Valva was born in London in 1978 to an Italian father and an English mother. He currently lives in Paris where he graduated at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in 2003. He then took part to the production of short movies and feature documentaries, including Serge July’s documentary « Once Upon a Time … Last Tango in Paris ». In 2007, he finishes his first documentary as a director « Transvestites Also Cry » (Les travestis pleurent aussi - 52'), filmed over three years. The film was produced by Kanari Films and broadcast by Planète (France). It is currently touring film festivals. It has won the Audience Prize at Roma Doc Fest 2007 and the Best Documentary award at the New York International Latino Film Festival 2008. He’s currently working on "Angel", a documentary film about Mujeron, a former Ecuadorian boxer, now a transsexual prostitute in France. After five years, Mujeron returns for the first time to his country to see his family he supports through prostitution. Sebastiano is currently finishing with Italian editor Ilaria Fraioli, a documentary about his father, Italian architect Franco d'Ayala Valva. He has been invited to attend the Berlinale Talent Campus in February 2008 to take part to the Doc Station programme in order to develop this project with internationally renowned documentary experts. The project was also selected at Documentary in Europe (Bardonecchia), Premio Solinas and European Cinema and Audiovisual Day in Turin.
Les travestis pleurent aussi on DVD TOILE and on IMDB
La sfida e' quella di proporre a teatro in uno spettacolo fruibile in un'ora, espressioni artistiche nate in tutt'altro contesto: dalla body art estrema dei rave party, alle azioni performative degli anni '60-'70, alle più sofisticate installazioni umane da museo d'arte contemporanea, performance, quadri viventi, azioni estreme sul corpo, prove di resistenza, accompagnate da video e musica dal vivo.
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Queer mai fut une apothéose.
Si, si on vous le jure !
Alors que nous réserve le mois de juin ?
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(Strasbourg) suivi d’un atelier discussion : « Dur à Queer »
Le 13 juin l’asso’ Festygays
donne carte blanche à King’s Queer pour la soirée de clôture de la
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Mauvais Genres (www.myspace.com/mauvaisgenres) mais aussi projection du court
métrage « Journal intime » (http://journalintime-lefilm.new.fr),
et on s’achève sur une Disco Débile animée par nos soins !!!
Le 18 juin King’s Queer à Bruxelles à l’asso Coiffure
Liliane
Le 20 juin à Lille au CCL avec Viscéralement Déviant
Le 21 juin toujours au CCL atelier discussion : « Dur
à Queer »
Peut être que ce sera l’occasion de se croiser…
En attendant n’oublions pas « La révolution c’est pas
pour les pédés »…
Petit passage rapide pour laisser quelques infos. Pour King’s
Queer mai fut une apothéose.
Si, si on vous le jure !
Alors que nous réserve le mois de juin ?
Le 10 juin Show –case de King’s Queer au Café les épines
(Strasbourg) suivi d’un atelier discussion : « Dur à Queer »
Le 13 juin l’asso’ Festygays
donne carte blanche à King’s Queer pour la soirée de clôture de la
Gaypride de Strasbourg. Au programme : King’s Queer + Nos copines de
Mauvais Genres (www.myspace.com/mauvaisgenres) mais aussi projection du court
métrage « Journal intime » (http://journalintime-lefilm.new.fr),
et on s’achève sur une Disco Débile animée par nos soins !!!
Le 18 juin King’s Queer à Bruxelles à l’asso Coiffure
Liliane
Le 20 juin à Lille au CCL avec Viscéralement Déviant
Le 21 juin toujours au CCL atelier discussion : « Dur
à Queer »
Peut être que ce sera l’occasion de se croiser…
En attendant n’oublions pas « La révolution c’est pas
pour les pédés »…
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