Country: Brazil
Year: 2020
Duration: 77'
Between 2016 and 2019, Coraci Ruiz documented her son's f to m transition as he faced the conflicts, the certainties and uncertainties that overcame him while he deeply investigated his identity. From behind the camera, she was involved in the complexity of each moment, capturing the ways in which the family changed and creating a dialogue on the history of Brazilian feminism, the criticalities of gender and the stereotypes which affect all of us.
Biography
film director
Coraci Ruiz
Coraci Ruiz has studied dancing, audiovisual culture, media and multimedia at Unicamp and documentary filmmaking at Escuela Internacional de Cine y Television in Cuba. In 2003, she co-founded the production company Laboratorio Cisco. Her filmography includes the award-winning documentary Letters to Angola (2012) and the short films Nostalgia, Video Letters to Cuba (2005), Another City (2009), Letters from Exile (2015) and Strong Feather (2019). She is currently working on the feature film Blooming On the Asphalt.
Cast
& Credits
Sceneggiatura/Screenplay Luis Fagá, Coraci Ruiz
Montaggio/Editing Luis Fagá, Lucas Lazarini, Tobias Rezende
Fotografia/Photography Coraci Ruiz
Suono/Sound Guile Martins
Musica/Music Natalia Mallo
Interpreti/Cast Lena Bartman, Martí Ruiz de Matos Coraci Ruiz
Produttore/Producer Rodrigo Diaz Diaz
Produzione/Production Laboratorio Cisco
Montaggio/Editing Luis Fagá, Lucas Lazarini, Tobias Rezende
Fotografia/Photography Coraci Ruiz
Suono/Sound Guile Martins
Musica/Music Natalia Mallo
Interpreti/Cast Lena Bartman, Martí Ruiz de Matos Coraci Ruiz
Produttore/Producer Rodrigo Diaz Diaz
Produzione/Production Laboratorio Cisco
