Brazilian Documentary
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Documentaries are about opening a conversation on relevant issues. These Brazilian documentaries will equip you with the information to discuss critical issues facing Brazil. From allowing workers to collect materials from landfill sites, to ordered assassinations to facilitate land grabbing in the Amazon. Many of these documentaries are available on Kanopy a free resource provided via signing up at your local public library.
Award winning documentary Schools in Fight films the movement of high school children to occupy public schools that were set for closure. In a TV interview the Minister of Education announced the closure of 94 public schools. The students begin a protest by setting up camp in 241 schools. The documentary follows their progress.
This documentary scans the largest supporters of Ex-President Jair Bolsonaro: large landowners, evangelical Christians and the military. Nicknamed the beef, bible and bullets we see the affect the election of the far-right leader is having on Brazil. It also justifies why he ever made it to power: support from powerful portions of the Brazilian population.
The favela communities of Brazil have a high percentage of women-headed households. The mass incarceration and assassination of a large portion of the men in these communities has left many households absent of adult males. Brazilian rapper MV Bill produced a documentary on the process of recruiting young boys into drug trafficking. Ultimately, the main cause of their absence in later life. Recruitment often begins in the position of Falco (falcon), which is the lookout who alerts when other gangs or police officers are approaching the drug headquarters.
On July 23 1993, Sandro de Nascimento escaped the Candelaria Massacre. The shooting killed 8 homeless teenagers and children sheltering outside the Candelaria church in Rio de Janeiro. There were 60 minors sheltering there that night. The shooters included police officers. Years later, Sandro hijacked a bus in the affluent South Zone of Rio de Janeiro. The documentary follows the events of the hijacking, which lasted 5 hours.
Tracking the lives of the cast of City of God, the vastly popular Brazilian 2002 movie, this documentary shows the non-showbiz glam of the favelas. It also reunites the cast to see what paths their lives took once the filming crew moved on.
A documentary that explores the evolution of the small town of Toritama in the State of Pernambuco. It depicts the relentless work of the inhabitants of Toritama, who know the more they work, the more they can earn. The only time they take a break is for the 5 day Carnival, 6 weeks before Easter.
Franco Galeno is a celebrated Brazilian painter, who paints pictures of urban scenes using elements from childhood, such as toys. One of his most famous paintings was the design of the entire inside of Igrejinha in Brasilia. The documentary follows his humble life in Cear, immigration to the new capital Braslia and shows his artistic process.
Sister Dorothy Stang moved to Anapu in Par, one of the Brazilian States in the Amazon region, to be a missionary in 1966. She was murdered in 2005 for her work criticizing the lack of land reform in the Amazon region and the consequential illegal logging and cattle farming. This documentary uncovers the lawyers, middlemen, small agricultural farmers and large cattle ranchers involved in her assassination.
Tracking the journey of a tomato to a landfill site, this short 18 minute documentary is a lesson in waste management. Ilha das Flores is an older documentary shown often in primary schools as an education tool.
A film exploring the practice of modern day slavery in farms in the Amazon region. This film tracks a mother as she searches for her missing son. A powerful, emotional and distressing story based on truth. It will shake you.
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Background: The objective of this article is to make some analysis on the process of work and accidents occurring in slaughterhouses, evidenced in the Brazilian documentary film called Flesh and Bone. As such, it was necessary to discuss an alternative theoretical concept in relation to theories about health and safety at work. This alternative discussion focuses on the concepts of biopower and biopolitics.
Methods: The use of audiovisual elements in research is not new, and there is already a branch of studies with methodological and epistemological variations. The Brazilian documentary Flesh and Bone was the basis for the research. The analysis of this documentary will be carried out from two complementary perspectives: "textual analysis" and "discourse analysis."
Results: Flesh and Bone presents problems related to health and safety at work in slaughterhouses because of the constant exposure of workers to knives, saws, and other sharp instruments in the workplace. The results show that in favor of higher production levels, increased overseas market sales, and stricter quality controls, some manufacturers resort to various practices that often result in serious injuries, disposal, and health damages to workers.
Conclusion: Flesh and Bone, by itself, makes this explicit in the form of denunciation based on the situation of these workers. What it does not make clear is that, in the context of biopolitics, the actions aimed at solving these problems or even reducing the negative impacts for this group of workers, are not efficient enough to change such practices.
Deep in the Brazilian Amazon, a community known as the Landless Movement are on the frontline of land grabs and violence at the hands of cattle ranchers who want their land. This new short film highlights their resilience and exposes the international financial system and agribusiness companies linked to their struggle.
The landless community featured in this film have faced violence and land grabs at the hands of a local cattle rancher, who wants to use the land and remove their homes to farm cattle. But linked to this is a chain of actors from cattle ranchers through to multinational beef traders, their US and European auditors, international financiers and the governments that regulate them.
This documentary shines a light on how the international community can stand with land and environmental defenders like the landless community. campaigning to secure their land rights impacted by big agribusiness activities and standing up to international banks and businesses fueling deforestation and threatening their lands.
The other nominees in the category are the US production *American Factory*, by Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert; the Syrian-Danish documentary *The Cave*, directed by Feras Fayyad; the British film about the Syrian war *For Sama*, directed and narrated by Waad Al-Khateab; and the Macedonian documentary *Honeyland*, by Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov.
The director had behind-the-scenes access to the impeachment proceedings that shook Brazilian democracy and culminated in the imprisonment of former president Luiz Incio Lula da Silva in April 2018 and the victory of the far-right army-captain-turned-politician Jair Bolsonaro.
Since its premiere, The Edge of Democracy has been critically acclaimed and praised by the international media. The documentary was even included in The New York Times list of best films of 2019, curated by film editor Stephanie Goodman.
Memories propel us. They shake us from our unquestioning routines. They come out of nowhere, directly connecting past and present, without asking permission, seizing us with possibilities for projecting futures, questioning spaces, and moving forward. How many memories fit within the building of Brazil? Which of them speak to you? What is Rio de Janeiro like today? Why is this place the way it is? Is there a divided city? What stories are told and what others are still worth telling? What really gives us hope?
The documentary Rio, Negro [Black Rio and a play-on-words with Black River] is the first cultural project funded by Casa Fluminense, a civil society group formed in 2013 to foster and create effective initiatives aimed at promoting equality and strengthening democracy and sustainable development across the Rio de Janeiro metropolitan area. Produced by Quiproc Films and distributed by Pipa Pictures, the documentary premiered in Brazil on March 2 in movie theaters in Rio, Aracaju, and So Paulo.
Rio, Negro premiered in Rio, Aracaju, and So Paulo, and has since been reaching audiences across Brazil with screenings in Palmas, Tocantins, Santa Catarina, and Porto Alegre. Distributor Pipa Pictures informed RioOnWatch that the documentary will be available on streaming platforms in the near future.
In May 2010, Catalytic Communities launched what was originally Rio Olympics Neighborhood Watch (hence RioOnWatch), a program to bring visibility to favela community voices in the lead-up to the 2016 Rio Olympics. This news site, RioOnWatch.org, grew into a much-needed and unique reference featuring favela perspectives on the urban transformation of Rio. With diverse and deeply interlinked articles by a mix of community reporters, resident opinions, solidarity reporters, international observers, and academic researchers, we work to engender a more accurate picture of favelas, their contributions to the city, and the potential of favela-led community development in Rio and around the world.
Thedocumentary is framed around a concert held at the TeatroMunicipal in So Paulo that featured Emicida and all of hiscollaborators who appeared on his AmarEloalbum released in early 2020, including stars old and new like PablloVittar, Maria Bethania, Marcos Valle and Ibeyi. Theconcert features a host of Black Brazilian stars performing in aplace that rarely even has Black audiences. The story told is ofartists often overlooked and left out of history too.