Lufe Steffen
Directing
Biography
Lufe Steffen is a filmmaker, writer, and journalist from São Paulo, Brazil. He graduated in Communications and Acting and works in media outlets targeted towards LGBTQ+ audiences, developing films related to the theme since 1997, when he first began his research on Brazilian queer cinema. Produced and directed two feature documentaries, both on São Paulo's queer night scene: "São Paulo in Hi-Fi" (2016) and "Freak Night Fever in São Paulo" (2012). As a writer, producer, and director, he made ten short films, all traversing the LGBTQ+ universe of the Brazilian city.
Known For
In the 1980s, the musical and futuristic teacher Clara Celeste arrives at a school surrounded by bullying problems driven by issues of ethnicity, sexuality, gender, physique, and behavior. With the teacher's help, a group of students are finally able to find their voice and experience empowerment, with the freedom to live as they wish. Despite this, prejudice still surrounds the school, always seeking to intimidate the students. To win this battle against intolerance and censorship, the group will need to stick together and believe in the power of change.
We Are the Future
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Arlequinal!
An epic documentary on the vertiginous and tireless nightlife of actual day São Paulo. A bohemian road-movie fueled by parties, music, fashion, social networks, kisses, politics, love, and sex. All of it conducted by the great São Paulo metropolis.
Freak Night Fever in São Paulo
This short film shows an honest portrayal of love in Sao Paolo. A guy keeps wondering when will he ever find true love and asks his best friend the same question. They both look for love and as unexpected as it can be they both ultimately find it.
Kiss Me If You Can
A documentary that explores the history and impact of magazines, newspapers, fanzines, and other journalistic media produced by and for the LGBTQIAPN+ community in Brazil. The idea for the documentary came about in 2020, during the pandemic, when the director began studying the history of the LGBTQIAPN+ press, an investigation that resulted in a video for the filmmaker's YouTube channel, published in 2021. The film presents an overview of the LGBTQIAPN+ press, from the mimeograph in the 1960s to the internet today, and is also a portrait of Brazilian society and the evolution of the rights achieved by this community.
Uma Breve História da Imprensa LGBT+ no Brasil
The story of a boy who inherits a mysterious bed, provoking dark desires in whoever comes near it. Humor, terror, eroticism, and fantasy in this sinister fable about desire and its secret facets.
The Horny Bed
In this short film, documentary and fiction is blended seamlessly bringing to life real stories about LGBT people and their experiences at prom.
Prom Night
Historical documentary about São Paulo's gay night life during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. With testimonials from people who lived through that time and images of unforgettable shows at classical night clubs of the city. Bringing back to memory the stars, the heroes, and even the bad guys: military dictatorship and AIDS epidemic.
São Paulo in Hi-Fi
If you think you've seen it all in terms of the clubber world, get ready: you're going to find out that... clubbers eat too.
The Clubbers' Wild Trip
Two guys. A couple. A customer. Money. Happiness.
My Boyfriend Is a Hustler
The adventures of Bofe na Coleira, lost in the stone jungle of the big city, always pursued by bizarre characters.