Director Johannes Sjøberg
Country/Production UK/Sweden
Release 2007
Length 58 mins
Format Colour / DVD / PAL / All region
Location Brazil, Sao Paulo / America
Ethnic Group Brazilian
Language Portuguese (English sub)
Collection S
Order No RAI-200.3098; 209.2007.160
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Transfiction explores 'ethnofiction' - an experimental ethnographic documentary film style in which the participants collaborate with the filmmaker to act out their own and others' life experiences in improvisations. The film focuses on identity and discrimination in the daily lives of transgendered Brazilians living in São Paulo. Fabia Mirassos projects her life through the role of Meg, a transsexual hairdresser confronting intolerance and re-living memories of abuse. Savana 'Bibi' Meirelles plays Zilda who makes her living as one of the many transgendered sex workers in São Paulo, as she struggles to find her way out of prostitution.
