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Masquerading: To Hell and Back

Country: South Africa, Language: English, 14 mins

  • Director: Sofia de Fay
  • Producer: sofia de Fay

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A bittersweet letter is written by a 58 year old Cape Coloured drag queen, Sandra Dee to her best friend, Samantha Fox celebrating their complicated 30-year friendship. The letter takes us on a funny and poignant journey through their shared memories, Sandra Dee reminisces about their struggle to survive the Apartheid regime and the adventures and misfortune that befell them because of their color and their transgender identity. In South Africa up to 1994; it was illegal to be a drag queen or masquerade as the opposite sex.

The drag queens live in the shanty town of a Cape Coloured gangland called Hanover Park and involve themselves in community work reaching out to less privileged kids and Sandra Miss Gay Legend hosts a pageant for the over forty generation of drag queens. She is now the Fairy Godmother of the ganglands.


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Masquerading: To Hell and Back Promo from Sofia De Fay on Vimeo.