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Director's View

 

Soll Paixão, with her agile fingers and attentive eyes, designs a world of sequins on fabric. The small bar where she works, at the exit of the alternative theater in the Center of São Paulo, is a refuge for restless souls. There, a diverse and progressive audience gathers at nightfall, thirsty for music, theater, cinema, and conversations that transcend the trivial. In the intervals between serving customers,

Soll dedicates herself to embroidery. Each stitch is a promise, a glimmer of hope. The dress she prepares is more than an outfit; it is a gleaming armor for the night ahead. Sunday will be the day of the coronation of Miss Trans 2023, and Sol wants to be impeccable.

 

She knows that the crown is not just an adornment, but a symbol of resistance and conquest. In the dressing room, where anxiety floats

like a sweet and bitter perfume, Soll mingles with the other contestants – some with their eyes marked by fatigue, and others whose laughter echoes through the walls.

WE ARE ALL MISS

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Artver/documentaries Kalika/Filmes

Duration: 80 min.

 

Cast: Soll Paixão, Leonora Áquilla, Rosana Star, Sérgio Oldenburg 

among others.

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With an observational approach, the film reveals how these women challenge stereotypes and redefine, each in their

own way, what it means to be a woman .

 

Soll, a young aspiring actress, dreams of being crowned. Miss Brasil Trans 2023.

The film follows her preparations for the pageant, contrasting the glamour of the event with the reality of her daily life as a mother and a woman who transcends aesthetic standards.

 

Leonora Áquilla, Her ability to articulate discourses and win allies shows that her strength goes far beyond her identity .

 

Juliana Dias, Neurologist – the largest city in Latin America –,is an example of resilience and professional excellence .

 

Her participation in Miss Trans 2023 is not for the crown, but for the message she carries: "What matters is what you do with your knowledge. You can become whatever you want”

 

With intimate photography and a rhythm that values gestures and silences, the documentary invites the viewer to see these women in their fullness, as complex people with stories of overcoming as human as anyone else's.

 

The Miss Brasil Trans 2023 pageant serves as a metaphorical backdrop: all of them, in their different battles, daily dispute the right to be seen, respected, and crowned by their own existence.

What this pageant shows beyond what

is being seen.

Director, Daniel A. Rubio,

has worked in the audiovisual market since 19876 . In 2019, he debuted in cinema with the documentary "O Verde Está do Outro Lado" (The Green Is On The Other Side)6 . He worked as a producer and director in cable televisions in the USA and at TVPUC 1997, BBC, TVArte, TV Aljazeera6 . Some of his main projects include: "Tobias 700 - The Story of an Occupation" exhibited at festivals in France, Cuba, Argentina, Uruguay, award for best documentary video at Mostra Cinesul 2005 - Rio de Janeiro, the jury prize among more than 70 documentaries from Latin American countries6 . Director of the Documentary “O Verde Está do Outro Lado” 20196 . Associate Producer and one of the editors of the documentary "Entre a luz e a sombra" (Between Light and Shadow) (Biarritz, Amsterdam, and at the É Tudo Verdade festival in Brazil)6 .

 

Photographer, Karla da Costa,

works in various segments as a director of photography; one of her main projects was the documentary “Bixa Travesty” (Tranny Fag) (2017), awarded at some festivals in 2018 such as the Teddy Awards, Berlin Festival; Mostra La Paloma Valencia/Spain, Brasília Festival and finalist for the ABC Award for best cinematography in 20197 . As a director, she made the documentary short film "Conversas entre Elas" (Conversations Between Them), selected in the Edital Projeto Curta em Casa (Instituto Criar, Projeto Paradiso and SPCine), selected for the Short Film Competitive Exhibition of the IV Rota – Doc and Best Director Award at FIC Pangeia 2023, and, at the request of the Immigration Museum, SOMOS MIGRANTES (WE ARE MIGRANTS)7 . overcome these stereotypes and find their true identity8 . The film "Somos todas Miss" (We Are All Miss) is an observational portrait of the struggle for the discovery of a woman's identity8

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The project, which was filmed during the Miss Brasil Trans 2023  pageant, is in the research and screenwriting phase.

 

The film seeks not only to celebrate trans resistance, but also to break through bubbles and reach audiences who still view this reality with distance or ignorance.

 

More than a portrait

of identity, "Somos Todas Miss" is a mirror: it reminds us that we seek the same thing, to be who we are without asking permission,

and that, in this sense, we are all worthy of our own crown.

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