In 1961, five young middle-class filmmakers, from the University student movement, made the film “Five Times Favela”, produced by the Popular Culture Center of the National Union of Students (UNE). Directed by Carlos Diegues, Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, Leon Hirszman, Marcos Farias and Miguel Borges, “Five Times Favela” would become a landmark of modern Brazilian cinema, one of the founding films of the cinematographic movement that would conquer Brazil and the World, known as the New Cinema.

In 2009, Carlos Diegues and Renata de Almeida Magalhães relaunched the project, producing the full-length feature ”Five Times Favela, Now by Us.” This time the film was written, directed and produced by young filmmakers living in the slums of Rio de Janeiro.

With the goal of training and preparing a new source of labor for the formal market of Brazilian cinema, the project conducted audio-visual workshops taught by great names in Brazilian cinema, such as Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Ruy Guerra, Walter Lima Jr., Daniel Filho, Walter Salles, Fernando Meirelles, João Moreira Salles and many others. Through film, the young people who participated in the project became spokespersons for themselves, recording their day to day lives in movies.

PROJECT WITH INCENTIVES FROM THE NATIONAL LAW FOR CULTURAL INCENTIVES

CATEGORY: CULTURE (FILM); THEME: TRAINING/ CITIZENSHIP.