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Wed, Nov 3 | 9:00 PM (AST)
United Kingdom, Brazil | 62 Minutes | Documentary
English, Portuguese
DIGITAL SCREENING
Availability:
Caribbean Premiere
SYNOPSIS
The film was produced using participatory practices in collaboration with mothers whose children have been killed during police operations in Complexo do Alemão, Manguihos, Complexo de Maré; and Salgueira. Janaina Matos, founding member of a group of Brazilian police officers campaigning against militarization, states that in Brazil ‘it has become normal’ for police ‘to enter a territory and treat the population as if it were a war enemy…Brazil’s security policy is not aiming to guarantee security for everyone, but just for an elite while oppressing the other larger number of the population, especially the black people.’
This film explores the relationship and close similarities between the militarised policing of favela communities in Rio de Janeiro and the militarised law enforcement tactics used by the Brazilian-led UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) between 2004 and 2007. (the film is currently in post sound editing and will be ready September 28th 2020.
Cahal McLaughlin
Is the director of the Prisons Memory Archive (www.prisonsmemoryarchive.com). His most recent films include; It Stays With You: Use of Force by UN Peacekeepers in Haiti (2018); Armagh Stories: Voices from the Gaol (2015), on the female prison during the Troubles in the North of Ireland; and We Never Give Up II (2012), on reparations in South Africa. Siobhán Wills is the director of the Transitional Justice Institute at Ulster University; Right Now I Want to Scream (2020) is her second film, and her pervious film was It Stays With You (2018).
THE CREW
Director/ Writer/ Producer
Cahal McLaughlin and Siobhán Wills
Producer
Juliana Resende
