ROCINHA
Rocinha. Daylight of a favela
Rio de Janeiro. Brazil 2003
DV Color. 52 min.

SINOPSIS:
A documentary film about Rocinha,
the daylight of brazil´s most notorious and populated favela. A jouney inside the slum through some of its most remarkable inhabitants. An alternative vision of their everyday fight against the stereotypes of poverty drugs and violence.

DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT:
I wanted to show the other side
of a favela, the daytime, the real life, not the already stereotype image of a favela, which is drugs and crime, but focus on the creative working men, 98% of the real inhabitants.

CREDITS
Direction and Camera: Carlos Casas
Photography: Batman Zavareze
Editor: Aurora Sulli
Sound: Giorgio Collodet
Producer: Belisario França for
Giros produçoes /Fabrica
Still Photography: Pieter Hugo

FESTIVALS
-Forum Universal 2004 Barcelona
-Festival dei Popoli 2004 Firenze
-Trieste Film Festival 2005