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Die Beautiful is a Filipino LGBT comedy-drama film produced and directed by Jun Robles Lana and co-produced by Ferdinand Lapuz and Perci M. Intalan, from a story by Jun Lana and screenplay by Rody Vera.
Die Beautiful: Directed by Jun Lana. With Paolo Ballesteros, Christian Bables, Joel Torre, Gladys Reyes. Friends attend the wake of Trisha, a Filipino transgender woman. They look back into her life and how she faced the adversities and triumphs of living as a transgender in Filipino society.
Jul 6, 2020 · Lyka Calingasan. The film begins and ends with a grainy collection of a young boy in dazzling costumes from sultry two-pieces to traditional outfits, striking poses, and walking runways, while the beauty pageant spiel of a proud introduction and gratitude runs in the background.
Trisha, a Filipino transgender woman, suddenly dies while being crowned in a beauty pageant. Her last wish was to be presented as a different celebrity on each night of her wake, but her conservative father wants to bury her as a man.
Jan 5, 2017 · January 5, 2017. It remains relatively uncommon for LGBT characters to be depicted with much depth in the Philippines; the all-too-common cliché of the flamboyantly gay comic relief character, without much other characterization, remains a popular trope in mainstream film and television today.
Dec 28, 2016 · There is no doubt that Jun Lana’s masterpiece DIE BEAUTIFUL is the 2016 Metro Manila Film Festival’s crowning jewel. Following a decade of laughing stock LGBT characters (one even attempted to fuse them as quadruplets), it is a golden moment to watch a film about transwomen that makes you feel all sorts of genuine emotions.
Trisha, a Filipino transgender woman, suddenly dies while being crowned in a beauty pageant. Her last wish was to be presented as a different celebrity on each night of her wake, but her conservative father wants to bury her as a man.
