The documentary feature film The beaded beachdirected by Ivan Mora Manzano and produced by Alfredo Mora Manzano, will have its second international premiere at the Phoenix Film Festivalwhich is celebrated in USA until April 10.
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The film will be part of The LGBTQIA+ Community category, and its main function is scheduled for April 7 at 10:10.
The documentary presents Vicky, a trans fisherwoman who lives in the coastal community of Engabao, and through her an entire community that experiences another form of acceptance and tolerance.
The festival organizers define the film as follows: “A sense of unfulfilled longing intersects with an irresistible, liberating warmth in this poetic portrait of Ecuadorian fisherwoman Vicky and the local transgender community of which she is a part”.
In a previous interview with this newspaper, the filmmaker said that the film raises some questions. “Precisely the most interesting ones do not have a clear answer, but rather bounce off the viewer, and the way in which the film communicates these questions is not in itself rational or intellectual, but has more to do with the cinematographic gestures that the search contains. of the work”Mora said.
The documentary had its world premiere last November at iDFA, considered the most important documentary festival in the world. The beaded beach It is scheduled to be released in theaters in Latin America in June. While it will arrive in movie theaters in Ecuador in the last quarter of the year.
The Phoenix International Festival, with 22 editions, is the largest in its region, named by the magazine MovieMaker among the 25 Coolest Film Festivals (one of the 25 coolest film festivals cool).
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The films that are part of this category of the festival highlight the experiences and lives of members of the LGBTQIA+ community. “LGBTQIA+ movies represent a rarely seen flavor of life. And what is more important, the vast majority of the films in this category are represented by independent productions, which allows greater freedom in the stories they tell” (Ben Cahlmer, director of LGBTQIA+ Programming).
The film also participates in this festival Unseen, by Javier Andrade. Its next screening will be on April 6 at 3:00 p.m. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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