A FILM
on a Pinoy transvestite won Thursday the top prize at the Berlinale's Teddy Que
er Film Awards.
"The Amazing Truth about Queen Raquela," which stars Raquela Rios of Cebu, bagg
ed the Best Feature Film Award in the sidebar of the Berlin International Film
festival.
"Queen Raquela" was cited by the jury "for its ability to address race, gender
and poverty in an entertaining way, while also playing with audiences' expectat
ions of form."
Filipino director Auraeus Solito won the same award in 2006 for his acclaimed "
Ang Pagdadalaga ni (The Blossoming of) Maximo Oliveros."
The prize includes a 3,000 Euro endowment to the film's director, Olaf de Fleur
Johannesson. Arlene Cuevas co-produced "Queen Raquela" which also features act
ors from the Philippines and Iceland, including Olivia Galudo, Brax Villa, Amor
Alingasa, Raniel Dave Balasabas, Ren Christian Balasabas, Stefan C. Schaefer,
Edith Galudo, Luis Labandero, Archie Modequillo, Reynaldo Palatulon and Alexis
Yap.
"Queen Raquela," which also tapped a Pinoy crew that includes Alexis, Butch Mad
dul, Ragnar Santos, and Beverly Tañedo, was shot in the Philippines, Thailand,
Iceland, Denmark, France and the US.
Olaf wrote the plot summary in the film's IMDB.com entry: "Raquela is a poor la
dyboy prostitute who dreams of escaping to Paris, France to supposedly find her
knight on Champs-Elysees, marry and have a family⦠But she has little chance
of getting a French visaâ¦
"When Raquela is discovered by a photographer, she gets a job working as a webc
am host on a popular ladyboy website. Within six weeks, she becomes the first F
ilipino online porn star and earns ten times the average salary in the Philippi
nes. Wanting to escape, she tries over the Internet to find that special guy wh
o will take her to Paris but she is not fortunate: she is stood-up month after
month at the airport.
"Things change when she meets online Valery, the only ladyboy in Iceland lookin
g for friendship and who promises to help Raquela with her visa so she can fina
lly go to Paris."
Film on Pinoy 'queen' reigns in Berlin film fest
A FILM
on a Pinoy transvestite won Thursday the top prize at the Berlinale's Teddy Que
er Film Awards.
"The Amazing Truth about Queen Raquela," which stars Raquela Rios of Cebu, bagg
ed the Best Feature Film Award in the sidebar of the Berlin International Film
festival.
"Queen Raquela" was cited by the jury "for its ability to address race, gender
and poverty in an entertaining way, while also playing with audiences' expectat
ions of form."
Filipino director Auraeus Solito won the same award in 2006 for his acclaimed "
Ang Pagdadalaga ni (The Blossoming of) Maximo Oliveros."
The prize includes a 3,000 Euro endowment to the film's director, Olaf de Fleur
Johannesson. Arlene Cuevas co-produced "Queen Raquela" which also features act
ors from the Philippines and Iceland, including Olivia Galudo, Brax Villa, Amor
Alingasa, Raniel Dave Balasabas, Ren Christian Balasabas, Stefan C. Schaefer,
Edith Galudo, Luis Labandero, Archie Modequillo, Reynaldo Palatulon and Alexis
Yap.
"Queen Raquela," which also tapped a Pinoy crew that includes Alexis, Butch Mad
dul, Ragnar Santos, and Beverly Tañedo, was shot in the Philippines, Thailand,
Iceland, Denmark, France and the US.
Olaf wrote the plot summary in the film's IMDB.com entry: "Raquela is a poor la
dyboy prostitute who dreams of escaping to Paris, France to supposedly find her
knight on Champs-Elysees, marry and have a family⦠But she has little chance
of getting a French visaâ¦
"When Raquela is discovered by a photographer, she gets a job working as a webc
am host on a popular ladyboy website. Within six weeks, she becomes the first F
ilipino online porn star and earns ten times the average salary in the Philippi
nes. Wanting to escape, she tries over the Internet to find that special guy wh
o will take her to Paris but she is not fortunate: she is stood-up month after
month at the airport.
"Things change when she meets online Valery, the only ladyboy in Iceland lookin
g for friendship and who promises to help Raquela with her visa so she can fina
lly go to Paris."
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Cheers for this, but don'T we have any more good movies aside from the always f
eatured gay filipino lives? Will the world see the other side of filipinos even
tually? Baka malunod tayong mga pilipino sa impression na pilipino = gay nyan.
It used to be just asian = gay, but now sinosolo natin ang title! I have nothin
g against gays. I am gay myself.
I'm afraid you've misunderstood The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela. In the f
irst place, this film is not about a Filipina transvestite but about a Filipina
transsexual. Raquela is not a "man" donning women's clothes but a human being
who was assigned male at birth but who grew up with a female gender identity. T
hen finally, Eliot, this is not a "gay" film, a film about homesexuality, or wh
atever "gayness" you think it is. It is about being a woman in this country, a
woman who wasn't born with a female body. Homsexuality, transvestism and transs
exualism are entirely different things. :-)
It would be nice to have other-themed Filipino movies entered in international
film festivals. The sad truth, though, is that most of the popular movies comin
g out of the Philippine movie industry are mindless teenage fantasies which may
be laughing stock to foriegn movie audience.
Also, the Filipino caregiver-themed movies which was quite respectable with 'Mi
lan' has now been imititated and remade into several OFW movies with a few litt
le variations.
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