RAQUELA OPENING IN NEW YORK AND LA
LOS ANGELES – August 27, 2008 - here! Films, the theatrical distribution and worldwide sales division of here! Networks, has acquired North American distribution rights to “The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela,” a new film from Icelandic filmmaker Olaf de Fleur.  Regent Releasing will distribute the film in select cities this Fall starting with New York and Los Angeles on September 26th. Read More

PREMIERE IN ICELAND
REYKJAVIK - Queen Raquela will premiere in a wide release in Iceland on the 10th October. The film will show in five theaters around the native country of the director Olaf de Fleur.

RAQUELA TO BRAZIL AND FINLAND
"The Amazing Truth about Queen Raquela" by director Olaf de Fleur has been selected for the Helsinki International Film Festival and Festival do Rio in Brazil. Festival do Rio, which first took place in 1999 as a result of the merger of Brazil’s two largest film events, Rio Cine Festival (founded in 1984) and Mostra Banco Nacional do Cinema (founded in 1988), is Brazil and South America's largest film festival and industry event. It receives massive media attention throughout Brazil and much of South America. See upcoming festivals here

MAKING OF QUEEN RAQUELA
In my first visit to Cebu City in the Philippines, I happened to be walking in one of the poor neighbourhoods when I where I saw three girls who were at odds with the location. They were dressed more like famous movie stars than someone on an every-day stroll in amongst the locals in Cebu City. READ MORE

INTERVIEW WITH OLAF DE FLEUR
Queen Raquela has picked up three new awards, the film won the "Best International Narrative Feature" and the "Shotime Vanguard Award" at NewFest in New York and go a jury award in Cinema City in Serbia for ""Special Contribution to Contemporary Film Expression". READ MORE

"RAQUELA" WINS IN BERLIN
"The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela” a film by director Olaf De Fleur that was premiered in the Panorama main section at the Berlin film festival won the prestige Teddy awards for the best feature. The Teddy awards have been presented at the Berlin film festival from the year 1980 and last night was the twenty second time they were given away. It’s a great honor for Olaf de Fleur to have won the prize, those who have won them are among others Pedro Almodovar, Gus Van Sant and Lukas Moodyson. See video from Berlin | BERLIN FILM FESTIVAL

KARL HENRY Musician Karl Henry performs the final track song for the film Queen Raquela. Olaf de Fleur and Karl Henry met and shot a little video for it.
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STILLS GALLERY On the photo to the left, director Olaf de Fleur and Raquela Rios meet for the first time in Cebu City.
STILLS GALLERY

THE COMPOSER Pavel E Smid is the main composer on QUEEN RAQUELA. He and director 'de Fleur have formed a bounding relationship, completing each other on the film lane.
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MAKING OF Director Olaf de Fleur babbles about the making of Queen Raquela and the ever so tiny thought behind it.
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TGIRL LIFE Lead actress, Raquela Rios talks about her life as a transsexual in the Philippines.
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TRAILER "THE AMAZING TRUTH ABOUT QUEEN RAQUELA"