WOMEN OF EARTH (2019)
Mayara grew up in Sao Paulo, the largest city in Brazil and Latin America. She was a teenager surrounded by millions of people, technology, and everything the modern world could offer. But she still felt empty. In search of Brazil’s roots, she traveled to indigenous, quilombola (communitied founded in 19th century by runaway slaves), and rural communities.
BAD & THE BIRDIEMAN (2016)
Sebastiao’s two-decade quest is to use badminton, a sport he never played, to transform the kids in a humble favela in Rio de Janeiro. Kids loved the sport from the beginning, but samba dancing to teach badminton, Sebastiao imagined and created a community of champions, family, and dreams.
Crescer e Viver
Jongo da Serrinha
Rise Up & Care presents a Lili Fialho and Katia Lund film on the Jongo da Serrinha, a community of courageous and innovative women that kept alive the traditional dance and beat of Jongo. It is said that Jongo became pregnant in Angola, but was born in Brazil. Taking its first steps in the Paraíba coffee plantations, Jongo flourished and reached new heights at Serrinha of Rio. The rhythm and dance of Jongo was originally practiced only by white-haired people and male drummers and faced an uncertain future in the face of discrimination and prejudice against Afro-Brazilian cultural practice.
Guti Fraga & Nos do Morro
Rise Up & Care presents a Lili Fialho and Katia Lund film about Guti Fraga, Nós do Morro and the effects of theater, poetry, dance, music, innovation and love on the favela of Vidigal, Rio de Janeiro. Guti Fraga has dedicated 30 years to infuse arts, culture and professional theater training in the Rio favela of Vidigal. In a constant process of reinvention and innovation, Guti creates magic, purpose and joy for waves of young people. A surprise reunion performance that combines generations of his students provides an emotional and unforgettable homage to a crazy dreamer.
Cinema Nosso
Rise Up & Care presents a Lili Fialho and Katia Lund film about Cinema Nosso, a film making school and production company that trains marginalized kids from Rio de Janeiro to pursue their dreams and become filmmakers. Five filmmakers and one movie, inside another movie. How would one make films while being filmed? Which cinema would Uerlem, from the Santa Maria community, love and want to show to the world? Diogo lives in Queimados, a two-hour train trip to the city center of Rio, but poetry and film move his heart and body. There he finds others that, just like him, come from afar to live a reality in which they see themselves portrayed, recreating the films of daily life.
