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Guevote - The Way I Feel Is How I Am (Guevote - So wie ich mich fuehle, bin ich)
A certain percentage of the girls born in a Carribbean village change into men during puberty. The film portrays two of these pseudohermaphrodites: their daily lives, their search for sexual identity and their position in society. Chi-Chi and Bonny live their common problem in entirely different ways ...
Rolando Sánchez was born in Maracaibo in 1957 and grew up in Venezuela and Switzerland. He studied Film, Sociology and Ethnology at the University of Zurich and has worked on various film productions. His films are: An meiner Beerdi-gung will ich dich nicht weinen sehen (1992), Der Tross - im Windschatten der Tour de Suisse (co-author, 1994), Women-Traffic (documentary, 1995), Guevote - Wie ich mich fuehle, so bin ich (documentary, 1996).
Genre Society
Category Documentary Cinema
Year of Production 1996
Director Rolando Sánchez
Screenplay Rolando Sánchez, Gaby Streiff
Director of Photography Tomi Streiff
Editor Eva Lopez Echegoyen
Music by Raulin, Ravel
Producers Gudrun Ruzicková-Steiner, Rolf Schmid
Production Companies 3sat/Mainz, FAMA-Film, Bern, Luna-Film/Berlin, Swiss Television SF/Zurich, Teleclub Switzerland/Zurich
Principal Cast Bonny, Chi-Chi
Length 59 min, 647 m
Format BETACAM SP, color
Dubbed Versions German
Original Version Spanish/English
Sound Technology Mono
With backing from Eurimages, Bundesamt fuer Kultur, Bern
World Sales
FAMA-Film AG
phone +41-1-2 45 86 60
fax +41-1-2 45 86 66
Category Documentary Cinema
Year of Production 1996
Director Rolando Sánchez
Screenplay Rolando Sánchez, Gaby Streiff
Director of Photography Tomi Streiff
Editor Eva Lopez Echegoyen
Music by Raulin, Ravel
Producers Gudrun Ruzicková-Steiner, Rolf Schmid
Production Companies 3sat/Mainz, FAMA-Film, Bern, Luna-Film/Berlin, Swiss Television SF/Zurich, Teleclub Switzerland/Zurich
Principal Cast Bonny, Chi-Chi
Length 59 min, 647 m
Format BETACAM SP, color
Dubbed Versions German
Original Version Spanish/English
Sound Technology Mono
With backing from Eurimages, Bundesamt fuer Kultur, Bern
World Sales
FAMA-Film AG
phone +41-1-2 45 86 60
fax +41-1-2 45 86 66