CAER
AVAILABLE VIRTUALLY MAY 13-15
With pre-recorded Q&A with director Nicola Mai, TRANSgrediendo Intercultural Collective members Liaam & Jennifer, community member Monserrat Padilla, and moderator and programmer Roberto Enrique Lopez
SPONSORED BY:
CAER (CAUGHT)
Nicola Mai; 2021; United Kingdom (takes place in USA); 1 hour
Rosa and Paloma fight transphobic violence and persecution from the police while defending their cases of trafficking in an increasingly anti-migration political environment in the US. Together with their friends and colleagues, they assert their identities creatively at a drag show that allows them to exist counter to their marginalization. Although Paloma and Rosa’s story is fictional, it captures the first hand experience of those involved in violence, trafficking, and sex work.
This experimental documentary combines ethnofiction and observational nonfiction as a collaboration between Nicola Mai and the TRANSgrediendo Intercultural Collective, a grassroots nonprofit organization defending the rights of transgender Latina migrant women in Queens, New York City. CAER is a tribute to the work and legacy of Lorena Borjas, the mother of these Latina transgender women in Queens, who was one of the first victims of COVID-19 in New York City in March 2020.
CONTENT WARNINGS: NON-EXPLICIT SEXUAL SITUATIONS, DISCUSSION OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE, POLICE, DEPICTION OF DOMINEERING TREATMENT FROM A MALE PARTNER, DEPICTION OF THE ARREST OF TRANS WOMEN, DEPICTION OF AN ANIMAL LEFT WITHOUT CARE, MENTION OF CHILDHOOD SEXUAL ABUSE, MENTION OF DETAINMENT, MENTION OF BEING PURSUED BY IMMIGRATION, MENTION OF THE MURDER OF TRANS WOMEN
