This is an excellent documentary that showcase the individual stories of transsexuals and drag queens, a community that often overlaps which each other. You are looking at the most marginalized group of LGTTB individuals, who they are, how they see themselves and what are their aspirations. The way Dan Sickles and Antonio Santini captured a down-to-earth real life middle-class Puerto Rico yet present it in an alluring way is nothing less than brilliant. As someone who grew up in Puerto Rico I can confirm the authenticity of the landscape and the people. In the 2.5 yrs span that took to shoot the documentary the filmmakers managed to wave an interested and poignant plot culminating with a satisfactory victory. Nothing like Paris is Burning, is not really fair to compare both because the tone, the intent and the narratives are completely different.
Review of Mala Mala
