Miss Amazonas

This documentary portrays the life stories of some of the finalist candidates for the longest lasting trans beauty contest in Latin America. In it we see how they transform, not only their bodies, but also their vision of themselves, involving learning processes, discovery, evaluation and (re) affirmation of their gender identities and the image they want to project through their bodies. «Miss Amazonas» also portrays the city of Iquitos, stereotyped with a supposed liberality and tolerance towards the LGBTI community but which in practice still keeps, rooted, taras of our society such as homophobia, incomprehension, violence and stigmatization of who is different and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. In this way, «Miss Amazonas» shows how, through an event that apparently reproduces heteronormal and hegemonic ideals, it gains acceptance by «invading» public spaces through the visibility of a part of the young gay and transgender population of Iquitos.