MICKEY
Trans YouTube personality Mickey has spent the last decade exploring her transition while living in conservative Sinaloa, Mexico. This documentary, a collaboration between friends, traces her memories and process of self-discovery.
Description
New York Premiere
Filmed over ten years, MICKEY follows a trans social media personality from Sinaloa who, alongside the filmmaker she grew up with, draws on digital archives and artistic reenactments to re-signify her past and inhabit the present.
The documentary is a deeply personal collaboration between director Dano Garcia and YouTuber Mickey Cundapí, a pioneer of Mexico’s early internet era. Mickey creates social media content under the handle @adiccionallabial (“lipstick addiction”) and has spent the last decade exploring her transition within the conservative context of Sinaloa.
Experimenting with images from both IRL and URL, the film—which won the Global Audience Award at this year’s SXSW—moves between tenderness and rage as it guides viewers through Mickey’s memories and process of self-discovery.
Part of the 38th Annual New York LGBTQ+ Film Festival
Director
Dano García
Producer
Dano García, Indira Cato, Alejandra Guevara Castillo, Joceline Hernández
Writer
Dano García, Tonatiuh Israel
Cast
Miss Mickey
Cinematographer
Diego Tenorio
Editing
Tonatiuh Israel