Unseen Favela -Timecoded Script (7941)
Ace Projects
Lumic
0.02 - 0.12
The favelas have always been very poorly misrepresented, our vision, for what the
favela is, and what it means to be favelado, to be black.
Gilson
0.13 - 0.30
The media needs to sell the news, and violent, negative news is how they make their
money, and the audience doesn't understand what is actually happening [in favelas] so
they believe what the media say as the truth.
Karen
0.30 - 0.45
People are tired of being quiet, tired of being repressed, today we use social media to
show who we are, show people that I am favela, I am favelado, but this doesn’t
diminish who I am.
Lumic
0.46 - 0.55
If we only watch TV, or the major media platforms we will think that it really is a
jungle and nothing good exists here.
Karen
0.55 - 1.03
People from the favela want to make noise, to show that the favela is a lot more than
what is being shown.
Claudia
1.44 - 2.14
When you are inside of a favela you can see it from a different angle. When I started to
live and pass time not only in my favela but other favelas, I saw something completely
different, favelas have a deeply rooted connection to art, and many hidden talents, the
favela is pure art, much more than a question of violence.
Gilson
2.16 - 2.52
I started Favela Scene because there was a huge demand for tourism in Santa Marta
[my favela] and it was being exploited by outside companies without contributing to the
favela and its people. Favela scene is a tour that aims to integrate the visitor in a few
hours, or days, into the community so they can understand the daily life of a resident in
Santa Marta favela, and to create a platform where the residents can interact with the
tourists to bring good things to the community.
Lumic
2.56 - 3.20
Favela residents have more motivation, and have been able to build more
themselves than what comes from the government. The importance of people from the
favela doing it for the favela, is a more important change than the little help the
government provides. Because they [the government] don’t look at people from favelas
as if they were humans. They have a mentality that whatever they put in a favela will
make a difference even though it isn’t always the best solution.
Regina
3.23 - 4.13
I started Favela Orgânica 8 years ago. It is a project that works with the cycle of life
and the cycle of food. For example, today you ate the skin of watermelon,
orange, melon and coconut and wasn’t it really good? Now you are going to look at the
skin of fruit with a different perspective. I believe in the project, it's a project that came
from inside of me. It is me. It represents my childhood and relationship
with food in the Northeast of Brazil. When you (someone from the favela) presents an
idea, because you are from a favela people don’t believe in the project, but when we
open our mouths, and prove it’s possible everyone starts drooling [because they realize
the potential].
Lumic
4.29 - 4.56
Many [music] artists show a different perspective of the same place and this is
something very important, some show a vision that is the cold reality, something more
impactful [violence, death, police operations] and there are others that show the good
side and the good people that live in the favela, "look here, and look at the good things
we are doing.” We can speak a lot more through music, because Rap is the form that
we have to speak, to get across a message.
Claudia
5.05 - 5.18
Many people are coming from favelas and having success, showing other people that
they can do it too, to be proud of who you are and where you come from and make a
difference in the next generation, help them believe that they can do it too.
Jonathan
5.25 - 6.20
ACAPS is an NGO that works in Vila Paciencia that give dance, circus, and tutoring
opportunities to kids in the area, always focused around the tutoring. At the start
families support the kids but we have to work slowly with these families because at
first it’s just seen as an occupation of time, but now we have 6 kids, kids who started at
the project and are now in Europe. This has changed the parents perspective [they now
say] “Noo, I want my kid to travel too, I want my kid to have a job.” Today, the parents
support the project because they have a vision for their kids. They see the potential of
the project and want their kids to become professional acrobats.
Lumic
6.28 - 6.48
I think the most important thing that we can do, is to inspire the next generation, to be
artists, professors, filmmakers, to be anything. If you can inspire, give a positive
word, if you could recommend a book, or a movie that will change the perspective of a
child, it is essential.
Karen
6.55 - 7.15
I have a 4 year old daughter, I always tell her, be free, be who you are, it doesn’t matter
what you hear or what they say, be who you are, don’t lose your happiness.
Lumic
7.21 - 8.01
I always try to be an example, so that those people who are “without a future” like they
call people from favelas, like they have called me, I can show them that
"no future" doesn’t exist, that you can have the
future that you want, some are harder, but if you have the desire you can do it. Your
head will expand, you will finds the paths, and it’s not the place that you come from, or
what people tell you that will define your future. Understand that even though people
speak badly about who you are and where you are from it is a reality that you can
change, it’s hard, but it’s possible.
Gilson
8.05 - 8.46
I would like to say to everyone, Brazilians, all people, stop speaking negatively about
the favela, if you have never been to a favela find a guide, a local, which ever
favela, come, learn about the reality first hand and share the true reality, not something
that you don’t know. The favela has culture, art, football, friends, friendship, love,
companionship, togetherness everything that humans need to live, it's a good place
where 99% of people are good, believe in us, believe in me, come be happy.