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young and full of talent. The film has a beautiful story. It's about a gay village which existed in Buenos Aires, behind the
University district, inhabited by travestis and gays. They tore it down in 1998. Ale is a travesti who scavenges and sells materials. She makes friends with a girl from a middle class family who is in need of help, as her mother committed suicide. Her father, played by Rodrigo de la Serna, feels lost in life. Unable to overcome his situation, he turns to alcohol. Acting on film is a new experience for me. Cinema has a different rhythm, and brings a different kind of satisfaction. Theatre brings immediate gratification in every way: an organic satisfaction, and satisfaction from the audience. With cinema, you're at the service of an image. The director and I began sending emails to each other. By intuition, I proposed to him that I play Ale with a melancholic expression. I suggested she life in constant disappointment, and we began to bring that to life. The good thing was that we spend a month rehearsing, and each department (costume, makeup) worked hard to contribute to the film.
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bathroom standing up, and my father had already begun to be hostile towards me. Now I am split between the past, between the man I was and am proud to have been, even though I had always known that, at some point, I was going to end up putting on a dress and a pair of high heels. Now, exactly half of me is made up of the present, and the other half, the past. There's no doubt that I'll live the rest of my life as Camila, but I'll never, in any way, be made to erase that boy from my memory - the boy that spent his school recess alone, watching how the others had their feast served to them; the boy who wasn't allowed to cry, who couldn't ask for help, who couldn't do anything for himself.
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have fought for everything we have managed to achieve with regards to rights and diversity. We are light years ahead of other countries in terms of social development - even first world countries, if we compare legislation related to diversity and gender. Our government is setting an example, and we hope that it spreads to all sectors of our society like an unstoppable virus, allowing diversity to bloom.
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By word of mouth, my name reached the director Javier van de Couter, who was in the process of casting for his debut film. They realised that I was much younger than they had expected. They had already chosen the main actress, but they liked my work. It seems I took her place. The director is very
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Thirty one years ago, my parents had a son I made dolls and robots, and when I was alone, I'd put on my mother's makeup. I'd secretly fall in love with my classmates and my teachers. I was a child that was suddenly faced with many sorrows all at once. I never managed to learn how to go to the
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