Synopsis

Transsexual vedette Evelyn Wittmann (74), exiled in France, returns to Chile and confronts her past: in 1968 she was kidnapped and forced to appear in a documentary about criminals, whose search actively involves transgenerational dialogues about memory, gender, and reparation.

• Nicolása

  Videla

  Director

  Filmmaker, artist, and educator whose work explores intimacy, affect, and memory, documenting dissident sexual subjectivities through observation, archival and performance. Her feature films are Naomi Campbel (2013), The Devil’s Magnificent (2016), Travesti Odyssey (2021)

• Anastasia

  Benavente

  Director

  Writer, activist, and linguist, with a Master’s in Gender and Cultural Studies. She is an ANID doctoral fellow in Latin American Studies at the U. of Chile, co-supervised with the University of Buenos Aires. she was both protagonist and script consultant for the feature film Travesti Odyssey (2021)

• Kevin

  Magne

  Producer

  Producer of cinematic and performing arts, researcher, artist, and Chilean cultural manager. Master degree in Latin American Art, Thought, and Culture. Executive Producer at CINESPECIE, they have produced Travesti Odyssey (2021) and director of Viral Oceans (2021)

• Cinespecie

  Chiledoc Company

  We are a chilean production company wich focuses on the development and production of documentary, experimental and hybrid films. We are interested in cinema as a medium to subvert collective memories, weaving stories that disobey the normativity of our social and political contexts.