Osiris and the Jarocho (2010)

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Year: 2010
Format: Mini DV
Duration: 20min
Documentary

Sinopsis

Julio was the favorite among the Jarocho’s many children, until he chose to start dressing as a woman at the end of his adolescence, eventually transforming himself into Osiris. A documentary film about Mexican machismo and the intricate but resilient bonds that exist between parents and children, even when they are a transvestite stylist and his father, a manly fishmonger driver

Script/ Director/ Photo/ Editing: Rene Peñaloza Galvan

Festivals: Distrital, Mexico 2012, Mix Festival 2013, CCC 2013 Exhibition in Playa del Carmen, Toluca International Film Festival, Mexico 2013 Against the Silence of All Voices, 2014

José Rovirosa Award for Best Student Short Film, UNAM Film Library, 2013. 
Award for the best Short/Medium-length film of the Documentary Film and Video Festival, Zanate, 2013

 

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