The Heroes of "Hustlers"
"Hustlers" returns power to groups that are traditionally deprived of it: women, the working class, and sex workers.

Brazilian-born filmmaker Natalia Leite's Queeroes short, Kiki and the MXfits, tells the story of protagonist Chiquilla and her "crew of misfit bleacher brats" as they navigate queer identity and being high school outsiders. When Kiki, a trans member of the squad, gets thrown in detention for using the girl's bathroom, it ignites a spark that sends the whole group of teens into a rampage of rebellion.
"Hustlers" returns power to groups that are traditionally deprived of it: women, the working class, and sex workers.
While subverting the conventions of Golden Age cinema with the characteristics of a slasher, Pearl studies the delusions of grandeur inspired by the movies.
Years before Mexican director, Alfonso Cuaron, was winning Academy Awards for movies like Gravity (2013) and Roma(2018), he directed a small, intimate film about two best friends who decide to embark on an improvised road trip to spend time with an older, attractive woman who miraculously agrees to go with them. Y tu Mamá También is a deep journey into the raw sexuality and friendship of the young protagonists, as well as a subtle social and political commentary on Mexico at the time.
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“I’m always interested in exploring female fantasy, and the sexy witch is a loaded archetype that is simultaneously about men’s fears and fantasies about women, and women’s feelings of empowerment and agency. So whereas we are used to seeing the sexy witch or the femme fatale from the outside, I wanted to explore her from the inside.” - Anna Biller, on why she made The Love Witch