About the film
Queen of Lapa is a 2019 documentary film directed by Theodore Collatos and Carolina Monnerat which profiles Luana Muniz, a Brazilian Brazilian transgender activist and cabaret performer. Archived 2023-04-16 at the Wayback Machine In 2002, Muniz founded the Associação dos Profissionais do Sexo do Gênero Travesti, Transexuais e Transformistas do Rio de Janeiro to fight for greater rights for Rio's sex workers. The documentary uses Direct Cinema style to depict the lives of a small community of trans sex workers in Rio de Janeiro's Lapa neighborhood.
From the film's Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA 4.0).