Transfiction

Transfiction explores ethnofiction an experimental ethnographic documentary film style in which the participants collaborate with the filmmaker to act out their own and others life experiences in improvisations The film focuses on identity and discrimination in the daily lives of transgendered Brazilians living in São Paulo Fabia Mirassos projects her life through the role of Meg a transsexual hairdresser confronting intolerance and reliving memories of abuse Savana Bibi Meirelles plays Zilda who makes her living as one of the many transgendered sex workers in São Paulo as she struggles to find her way out of prostitution