SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, March 17 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Cabildo de Tenerife has hosted today Friday the presentation of the second edition of the Trans* Cinema Show, a cultural event that will take place from May 4 to 6 and that aims to make visible the reality of the trans community and bring the public closer to how it is evolving the seventh art to respond to the needs of a group hitherto ignored or misunderstood in cinematographic matters.
The film exhibition, organized by the Pedro Zerolo Foundation, the Pedro Zerolo Cinematheque and the Charlas de Cine association, is sponsored by the Culture departments of the Cabildo de Tenerife and the La Laguna City Council. Multicines Tenerife and Aulas de Cine of the University of La Laguna also collaborate
The CEO of Citizen Participation and Diversity, Nauzet Gugliotta, highlighted during the presentation that they are supporting this film event for the second year “which will put on the streets stories, testimonies, histories and realities of a group that has traditionally been invisible or relegated to the social shame”.
The act was also attended by the Councilor for Culture of the La Laguna City Council, Yaiza López, together with the vice president of the Pedro Zerolo Foundation, Conchi G. Zerolo; the director of the Pedro Zerolo Cinematheque, Gerjo Pérez; and the representative of the Charlas de Cine association, Manuel Díaz.
Nauzet Gugliotta valued the work promoted by this mandate with the different groups to strengthen citizen participation and activism in favor of people’s rights. “Under the mandate of Pedro Martín we have achieved a Cabildo firmly committed to the rights of all people and that in the last four years has worked very intensely to put trans realities at the center.”
On this occasion, he added, “we are allied with culture, as a tool for struggle and visibility, to continue building a more diverse Tenerife, a Tenerife that protects people with foundation, makes their realities visible, and vindicates their rights.”
The Councilor for Culture of La Laguna, Yaiza López, assured that they feel “tremendously proud” to be part of this “transgressive, vindictive, social, educational, participatory and integrating project that contributes to making visible the reality of the trans community, a collective that sadly and historically has been misunderstood and ignored”.
During his speech, López stressed that culture “has to be that medium, that tool, to create, make visible, educate and raise awareness. It is important to show the new generations that they are not alone, because their struggle is also ours” .
On the part of the organization, the good participation and reception registered in the first edition, through which films such as Triángulos Rosas, by Borja Lynch and Eliezer Adam, or Mi Vacío y Yo, by Adrián Silvestre, were shown. The event will pay tribute this year to the figure of the artist and businesswoman Manolita Chen, activist and trans referent. The first trans woman to have the name and gender change approved in the DNI in Spain, in addition to the first to have the right of adoption recognized, promoting change so that the new generations do not suffer rejection and abuse that she had to go through.
This tribute will take place at the opening gala of the Trans* Film Festival on May 4, an act in which the artist will be present, in which the film TransUniversal, by Rafael Robles Gutiérrez known as ‘Rafatal’, who has also confirmed his attendance.
The documentary has been successfully premiered at the 26th edition of the Malaga Festival and also has the participation of Daniela Santiago, Rodrigo Cuevas, Bruno Campos, Divino, Ángelo Néstore, Elizabeth Duval, La Prohibida, Pink Chadora, Mar Cambrollé, Martina Benvenutto , Lara Sajen, Topacio Fresh, Cris Calvente, Ángel Calvente, Ethan Alcaraz, Carla Antonelli, Martín Moniche, Valeria Vegas, Juani Ruiz and Samantha Hudson.
Among the novelties of this second edition, Cinema Trans* will award for the first time an award to recognize figures or organizations that have stood out for their social activism in favor of the rights of trans* people. In this first edition of the awards, Carla Antonelli will be recognized, for her extensive career in and outside of politics, but, above all, for her work in recent years promoting the approval of the Trans * state Law.
For the second consecutive year, the advertising poster has been created by the Limbo Kids studio and the designer Daniel Fumero, who has recreated an allusion to Audrey Hepburn and her iconic character Holly Golightly in the movie Breakfast at Tiffany’s. In its design, the transdisciplinary artist, activist and researcher Daniasa Curbelo has been used as a model, with the stylist Iván Cabrera Zamora for the characterization and the photographer Rommel Alexander Messia Jorge.
The program also includes a tour of the island geography, taking the cinema to the municipalities to promote training, awareness and debate among citizens about sexual and gender diversity. In the coming weeks, more activities on the agenda will continue to be announced, as well as the attendance of more guests.
