Luana Muniz
Actor
Luana Muniz was a Brazilian activist known for sheltering transexuals, prostitutes, and HIV-positive people, in her big house in Rio de Janeiro’s downtown. She also was one of the creators of a project that offered education for the trans community of that city. Muniz, already famous in Rio’s underground scene, became a national sensation after being interviewed and filmed working as prostitute by a documentary television show broadcast on primetime in 2010.
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Movie5.9ComedyStreet vendor Denilson's life changes when his father dies and leaves him his entire legacy. Along with the fortune, however, Denilson also inherits the family that will do everything to get their hands on this inheritance.
Um Suburbano Sortudo
2016 · 74 votes
Movie1.0DocumentaryDocumentary feature that reveals the intimacy of Luana Muniz, Queen of Lapa in Rio de Janeiro, actress divided between prostitution, LGBT militancy and shows in cabarets. Best National Feature Film Award at the Rio Gender & Sexuality Film Festival.
Movie10.0DocumentaryLarger-than-life actress, cabaret performer, activist, and proud sex professional since the age of eleven, Luana Muniz - arguably one of Brazil’s most recognizable transgender personalities, shapes a new reality for a new generation of transgender sex workers in her hostel by providing a safe working environment in the dangerous neighborhood of Lapa in Rio de Janeiro. Queen of Lapa explores the day-to-day lives, quests for love, housemate rivalries in a turbulent political climate under matriarch Muniz’s watchful and guiding eye.
Queen of Lapa
2019 · 1 votes
Movie6.5DocumentaryA stream of consciousness from Brazil’s underground flows straight into the heart of the city’s street carnival. In between the masks and the make-up, the young, naked and new bodies and a spectacular firework display, people come into view who have undergone a transformation that makes it difficult to clearly ascribe them to any gender.
Obscuro Barroco
2018 · 11 votes