State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Professional journalist and filmmaker based on Rio de Janeiro, worked with NYT, Reuters, AFP, ESPN, Fusion, ITV, RTTV and others.
#Right2CityISNOT allowing wealthy and privileged few benefit from major events and large development projects at the expense of everyone else. Major sporting events can ignite a city’s spirit and civic capacity, lead to a sense of citywide pride, and help to increase tourism and economic stimulus. But major sporting events and projects only benefit everyone when they are deliberately designed to
This project is the result of the dream of a group of young people who, while they were in prison, thought of a way of attracting people’s attention to the living conditions and re-socialising possibilities of the prison system. The attempt to reconstruct lives, the intervals between prison terms, crime and the sinister recordings of the state’s dungeons - in which half a million Brazilians are in
It’s no secret that some factions of the Brazilian military and civil police are no angels, but Point Blank thrilling and disturbingly shows just how bad things are. Following the 1993 police shooting of 21 people in Vigario Geral, a Rio de Janeiro favela, the regional governor told the press “We need to know if they’re heroes or villains”, and Theresa Jessouroun’s raw, powerful documentary Point
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