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Nueva Award - Santa Barbara Film Festival
Tamara
Sunday April 30th 2017, 3:00 pm
Regal Cinema South Beach
1120 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach, FL 33139
Film Details
Runtime: 110 minutes
Language: In Spanish with English subtitles
Director: Elia K. Schneider
Country: Venezuela/Uruguay/Peru, 2016
Genre: Comedy
EAST COAST PREMIERE
Tamara tells the remarkable, true story of Tamara Adrián, Venezuela’s first transgender politician. In a country with highly defined gender types, Tamara lived as Tomás Adrián, the son of a conservative family who became a successful lawyer and academic with a wife and family, despite harboring strong feelings of identifying as female from a young age. He is determined to follow his heart, even though it will turn his whole world upside down and put his life at risk as he struggles to become the woman he truly is.
Nueva Award - Santa Barbara Film Festival
Tamara tells the remarkable, true story of Tamara Adrián, Venezuela’s first transgender politician. In a country with highly defined gender types, Tamara lived as Tomás Adrián, the son of a conservative family who became a successful lawyer and academic with a wife and family, despite harboring strong feelings of identifying as female from a young age. He is determined to follow his heart, even though it will turn his whole world upside down and put his life at risk as he struggles to become the woman he truly is.
Nueva Award - Santa Barbara Film Festival
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