SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 10 May. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Cabildo de Tenerife has launched, through the Citizen Participation and Diversity area, ‘Cinema Trans’, the first Spanish-speaking trans-themed film show.
A total of twenty municipalities will host the projections around the reality of the trans community during the two weeks that the event lasts and whose central axis will be May 17, the International Day against LGBTIphobia.
The CEO of Citizen Participation and Diversity, Nauzet Gugliotta, has reported that the reproductions seek to “sensitize the population of Tenerife, and the whole world due to its international nature, about the reality that trans people live”.
The exhibition will take place mainly from May 19 to 21 at Multicines Tenerife, in La Laguna, although from Monday May 16 to Saturday May 28 there will be screenings and activities in most of the island’s municipalities.
“This film exhibition will serve to support trans people but above all to pay a well-deserved tribute to those who are no longer there”, the councilor acknowledged. “Tenerife is a paradise of diversity if we are able to look at the world and although there is still a lot to do, the island is proud of its trans people,” added Nauzet Gugliotta.
The Cabildo supports the Pedro Zerolo Foundation, Pedro Zerolo Cinematheque, Chrysallis Canarias and Charlas de Cine in the organization of this event, which was born with the aim of giving visibility to the realities of trans people and how cinema has evolved to respond to a hitherto forgotten group.
Yaiza López, Councilor for Culture of the City Council of La Laguna, the municipality where the central acts of this exhibition will be held, has stated that she is excited to support a project like this. “When we think about the repercussions of this meeting and we realize that it can help people who live in solitude, who do not feel accepted by the world, we know that it is worth it”, he explained, adding that with just one person who leave this sample with the feeling of feeling accompanied “it will be quite an achievement”.
The vice president of the Pedro Zerolo Foundation, Conchi Zerolo, has assured that this is a “pioneering project in Tenerife, in Spain and in all Spanish-speaking countries”. “It is an opportunity for training, for visibility. Pedro Zerolo liked activism to be done that way, wherever it was needed, and cinema is a powerful tool to achieve it,” she explained.
Manuel Díaz Noda, spokesperson for Charlas de Cine and Chrysallys, has highlighted that trans people “have been in this world for as long as humanity has existed. It is not something new.” However, he has assessed that it is “now when people begin to write their history.”
PROGRAMMING
The director of the Pedro Zerolo Cinematheque, Gerjo Pérez, toured the programming of ‘Cinema Trans’. For its first edition, the exhibition kicks off claiming one of the fundamental figures of the group on the islands, Isabel Torres, who died on February 11. With her activism, Torres broke barriers for trans people. In 2005 she was the first transsexual candidate to Queen of the Carnival of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and also the first Canarian transsexual who in 1996 was able to adapt her DNI to her sexual identity.
The programming of ‘Cinema Trans’ will include productions that go from the local to the international. ‘Triángulos Rosas’, by Borja Lynch, and ‘Lapas y Viejas’, by Celeste González and Daniasa Curbelo, will represent Canarian production. The first will be in charge of opening the exhibition on Thursday the 19th, while the second can be seen on Saturday the 21st. On Friday the 20th, after the tribute to Isabel Torres, the film ‘Mi Vacío y Yo’, by Adrián Silvestre, will be screened.
Finally, international production will be represented by the feature films ‘Con Nombre de Flor’ and ‘Canela’, scheduled for Saturday the 21st. Together, a range of cinematographic works that seek to show the trans reality and the wide diversity of themes that this community can contribute to the seventh art.
The trans film festival in Tenerife will feature the presence of several of the creators and protagonists of the scheduled films, as well as different leading personalities within the Trans or LGTBIQ+ community.
The director Borja Lynch will be in charge of presenting his film on Thursday the 19th, while the event on Friday the 20th will be presented by the journalist Kiko Barroso and the actress Karen Hernández, companion of Isabel Torres in the cast of ‘La Veneno’. In addition, that day will feature the presence of Raphaëlle Pérez, star of ‘Mi Vacío y Yo’.
On Saturday the protagonists will be Daniasa Curbelo, who will present her short film ‘Lapas y Viejas’, and Josseline Mendoza Águilar, who will close the show with a performance of her work ‘Monologo’.
All the programming of ‘Cinema Trans’ will be available through the social networks of the Cinematheque and the Pedro Zerolo Foundation, as well as on the show’s own social networks. In addition to the Cabildo, the event has the collaboration of Multicines Tenerife, the Cinema Classroom of the University of La Laguna, and the associations LGTIBQ + Canarypride, Diversas, Libertrans, Transboys, Caminar Intersex, Adiciona Diversidad and Puerto Effect, all belonging to the Insular LGBTIQ+ Table set up by the Insular Corporation.
