Film Screening: A Singular Romance by Wesley Verástegui

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Speaker: Wesley Verástegui, Filmmaker and Master in Public Policy Candidate, Harvard Kennedy School
Moderated by: Jorge Sánchez Cruz, Visiting Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

Un romance singular (Perú, 2022, 85 min). A young conservative man meets a transgender former sex worker, without imagining that they would both fall in love that night, ignoring the past and the secrets that both of them hide.

The Film Screening will be followed by a discussion between the filmmaker and professor Sánchez Cruz. This event is part of the Queer, Feminist, and Trans* Aesthetics in Latin America Project supported by the Committee of the Provostial Fund. 

Wesley Verástegui is filmmaker and economist. In 2021, his feature film “A Singular Romance” won the “Grant for Film Distribution”, awarded by the Ministry of Culture of Peru, so that the film would be commercially released on January 6th, 2022. In 2017 he wrote and directed the camp feature film “Sin vagina, me marginan”, which had its Spanish premiere at the Madrid LGBT Film Festival (Lesgaicinemad). In 2015 his feature film script, “Filia”, was nominated in the category of “Best Unpublished Screenplay” at the “Latin American Film Festival of Havana”.

Jorge Sánchez Cruz is visiting assistant professor of Spanish in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. Their field of research explores the relationship between aesthetics and politics in 20th and 21st Latin(o) American literature and culture, and its intersections with sexuality and queer studies, travesti and trans theories, critical race theory, and decolonial thought.