Lemebel

Lemebel

96 mins | Documentary | Sept. 5, 2019

Pedro Lemebel, the writer and visual artist, defeated a marginal childhood to become one of the first to shake up Chile’s conservative society during Pinochet’s dictatorship. Dressed in feather boas, stilettos and a sharp tongue, he staged revolutionary performances that defied the era’s terror, he said what no one wanted to hear in a homophobic, repressed and militarized country.

Lemebel

96 mins | Documentary | Sept. 5, 2019

Lemebel
Pedro Lemebel, the writer and visual artist, defeated a marginal childhood to become one of the first to shake up Chile’s conservative society during Pinochet’s dictatorship. Dressed in feather boas, stilettos and a sharp tongue, he staged revolutionary performances that defied the era’s terror, he said what no one wanted to hear in a homophobic, repressed and militarized country.
IMDb rating 6.6
Producers Solita Producciones
Original title Lemebel
Directors Joanna Reposi, Lissette Orozco
Writers

Cast

Pedro Lemebel

as Self (archive footage)

Tevo Díaz

as Self

Pía Barros

as Self