Associate Producer
Rio de Janeiro, 1932. No bairro da Lapa vive encarcerado na prisão João Francisco (Lázaro Ramos), artista transformista que sonha em se tornar um grande astro dos palcos. Após deixar o cárcere, João passa a viver com Laurita (Marcélia Cartaxo), prostituta e sua "esposa"; Firmina, a filha de Laurita; Tabu (Flávio Bauraqui), seu cúmplice; Renatinho (Felippe Marques), sem amante e também traidor; e ainda Amador (Emiliano Queiroz), dono do bar Danúbio Azul. É neste ambiente que João Francisco irá se transformar no mito Madame Satã, nome retirado do filme (1932), dirigido por Cecil B. deMille, que João Francisco viu e adorou.
Director
This documentary shows a few days in the life of various members of Abdijan, Ivory Coast's gay and transgendered community. We get to meet a variety of woubis, yossis, etc. The hero/heroine of the film is a statuesque young man named Barbara who is organising the annual year-end party of the Ivory Coast Tranvestite Association, to be held December 27, 1997.
Director
Made up of meetings with some of the actors of the gay community of Paris, this documentary evokes the development of the community phenomenon and its economic importance in districts handed over to traders and companies competing for the market. By comparing different points of view, this film produced in June 1997 during Europride offers a reflection on the identity of a community caught up in its own contradictions, divided between the desire to assert its difference and the desire to blend in with the company.
