Kenya
Gisela Delgadillo
5:30 PM, Alamo Drafthouse, November 1st
México | 2022 | 88′ | Spanish – sub English
After witnessing the murder of her friend, Kenya, a trans woman sex worker, embarks on a path of struggle and search for justice that leads her to face the fear and pain of seeing herself reflected in that tragic ending.
Director • Dirección
Gisela Delgadillo
Screenplay • Guión
Gisela Delgadillo
Cinematography • Fotografía
Gisela Delgadillo, Juan Nasara, Sergio Silva
Music / Score
Josue Vergara, Juan Pablo Villa
Sound • Sonido
Josue Vergara
Production Design
Urdimbre Audiovisual, Mucho Films
Edition • Edición
Leandro Motta
Producer • Productor
Gisela Delgadillo
Director
Gisela Delgadillo
Gisela Delgadillo is a photographer and audiovisual producer, with experience in documentary and journalistic research. In 2016 she entered the Master's degree in Documentary Film at the National School of Cinematographic Arts where she began producing and directing her first documentary feature film "Kenya".
She has worked as an audiovisual producer in the area of production and post-production of audiovisual materials in independent media, civil organizations and educational institutes. She has experience working in the field with vulnerable people, particularly with indigenous communities and people from the LGBTQI+ community. Since 2018 she began collaborating with the civil association Casa de las Muñecas Tiresias, A.C., founded by the trans activist Kenya Cuevas and is currently in the development stage of his second documentary feature film.