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Malaga’s MAFF: Abner Benaim, Nerea Barros, Storyboard Media, Yanillys Perez Set for Fest’s Centerpiece Project Competition
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Its director, the Dominican Republic’s Yanillys Perez, scooped a Discovery Filmmaker Award at the 2016 Toronto Festival for “Jeffrey.” Lais Santos Araújo was selected last year among Variety’s 10 Brazilian Next Gen Talents to Track. “The Queens of La Praviana” aims to re-write history.“Unearthing the tragic massacre of unknown and disregarded trans women in official historical records sparked the urgency to shed light on their plight through fiction. The story of a daughter’s love who fights a two-decade legal battle to prove that her father, former Chilean President Eduardo Frei Montalva, was killed by Augusto Pinochet’s secret services.
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