Completed - ENGLISH, SPANISH - Documentary - 80 minutes
After 17 years working as a street prostitute in New York, the illegal immigrant Iván Monalisa reunites with former classmate, Nicole. Together, Monalisa re-flourishes as a transgender performer and writer, in the search for identity and the struggle for the legalization of her residency in the US.
Year of production : 2022 Director(s) : Nicole COSTA Producer(s) : Daniela CAMINO (MIMBRE PRODUCTIONS)
In 1995, in the midst of a promising theatrical career in Chile, the artist Iván Ojeda is invited to New York to perform a theatrical investigation at the New Dramatists. Upon finishing his investigation, Ivan decides to stay behind, is reborn as Monalisa and begins to work as a prostitute. Seventeen years later, his former colleague from the University of Chile and the director of this film, Nicole, arrives to live to New York City. Together they begin a journey in a quest to understand the motives that led Ivan to the choice of self-exile and marginalization in the search for identity.
Country(ies) : USA, CHILE
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