CAUGHT

Through this ethno-fiction, the director, ethnographer and sociologist Nicola Mai, brings us up close and personal with trans women sex workers in New York City from South America. Produced in collaboration with the Transgredjendo Collective, this poignant film, sometimes harsh but tinged with humor, is more than a film testifying to the violence resulting from transphobia and the precarious conditions of undocumented trans women sex workers. Through his participatory, fictional and observational method - the script having been co-written with the protagonists who play their own role - the director creates a concrete space where these often invisibilized and stigmatized people can define their own narratives and representations about their life experiences. 

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