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Mexico City, Mexico – 26 February 2025
1. Various filmmaker Camila D Aurora talking about her short film titled “Johanne Sacreblu,”
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Mexico City, Mexico – 27 February 2025
2. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Camila D Aurora, Filmmaker:
"My activism began the moment I gathered 50 people using only TikTok videos who came together to work two, three days, many hours, just for the pleasure of laughing about this film that a few days ago only made them angry."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Mexico City, Mexico – 26 February 2025
3. Camila D Aurora, a filmmaker in a talk about her short film titled “Johanne Sacreblu”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Mexico City, Mexico – 27 February 2025
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Camila D Aurora, Filmmaker:
"I’m not saying that it (“Emilia Pérez”) deserves it or that it doesn’t deserve it. But I would appreciate it if (the movie) only won (awards) in the technical aspect because I think it would hurt more if it won something in the creative aspect or if it won for best director. I feel that it is where the blow would come in because then you are reinforcing that a story can be validated as good regardless of whether it crosses the limits of the respect that you should have for the people of a country."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Mexico City, Mexico – 26 February 2025
5. Camila D Aurora about about her project “Johanne Sacreblu”
STORYLINE:
Contrary to the negativity and indifference in Mexico that has surrounded Jacques Audiard’s “Emilia Pérez”, an Oscar contender, more and more people are supporting its parody “Johanne Sacreblu.”
Mexican filmmaker Camila D. Aurora, who gathered a group of volunteer actors and crew to create the payback parody short film described as “a French-inspired film made entirely without a French cast or crew,” spoke recently to The Associated Press about the film and the activism behind it.
"My activism began the moment I gathered 50 people using only TikTok videos who came together to work two, three days, many hours, just for the pleasure of laughing about this film that a few days ago only made them angry," she said.
“Johanne Sacreblu” had more than a million viewers in its debut weekend on YouTube, while screenings of “Emilia Pérez” in Mexican cinemas was sparsely attended.
Up to the Oscars weekend, it had 3.2 million views on YouTube.
The short film has been shown in cinemas in Mexico City and even had a red carpet.
The film’s second part is scheduled to premiere in the next few days with 400 mimes in the scene, and special guests, including Alejandra Bogue, a pioneer Mexican performer.
Aurora recalled watching the film “Emilia Perez” using a pirate link because the film didn’t premiere until very late in the awards season in Mexico.
She found the film’s representation of transgender people and Mexicans problematic.
"It’s a pretty cheesy, simple story, with fairly basic resolutions, with no research on its country, with no research on what it means to be a trans person that was covered with the narrative of drug trafficking, disappearances, gender violence, and again trans identity," she said. "For those who saw the film, if you notice, it’s not really talking about drug trafficking, it’s not really talking about the disappearances."
Aurora decided to turn to TikTok to pitch a parody of two transgender heirs of millionaire French feuding families, Johanne Sacreblu and Agtugo Ratatouille, who fall in love in the middle of their battle to decide if the croissant or the baguette is the ultimate French bread.
She composed and recorded the songs.
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