Queen of Lapa (movie)
- User score: 10
- Production country: Brazil
- Producer: Theodore Collatos , Carolina Monnerat
- Genre: Documentary
- Release date: 5/10/2019
- Run time: 73 min.
Movie description
Larger-than-life actress, cabaret performer, activist, and proud sex professional since the age of eleven, Luana Muniz - arguably one of Brazil’s most recognizable transgender personalities, shapes a new reality for a new generation of transgender sex workers in her hostel by providing a safe working environment in the dangerous neighborhood of Lapa in Rio de Janeiro. Queen of Lapa explores the day-to-day lives, quests for love, housemate rivalries in a turbulent political climate under matriarch Muniz’s watchful and guiding eye.
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