Best Feature Documentary
Pirajui is a small city with only 25,000 people and three prisons with 1500 prisoners in each prison. Most of the female convicts in Pirajui prison are there because of drugs. Some of them did it for money, but the others did it for love, helping their boyfriends or husbands. GRAZIELLA FERNANDA COSTA (45), the director of Pirajui prison, decides to bring back self-esteem to female convicts with organizing a prison beauty contest. The Beauty Contest will give back the female inmates’ goals, pride, and steps towards improving their self-esteem. The prison beauty contest is a welcome diversion from the monotony of life inside the bar. For 4 weeks, convicted women get a chance to transform from poor Cinderella to the beautiful princess.