Campinas: Refiguring the identity of the city through mutual recognition
Exchanging Stories
2017
Matheus and Daniel are two teenagers from the city of Campinas, Brazil. Though they are similar in age, they live very different lives. Matheus is in a private school and lives with is parents in the city center. Daniel has been placed in foster homes and struggles with social inequality. The opposed social-economic worlds they are a part of label them as “different”, and create narrative walls that further separates them.
However, these two teenagers share a passion for music that brings them closer together and foster new perspectives inside their worlds and open the possibility for a new story to grow beyond the social class narrative that identifies and in someways limits them. Music is their shared language; the bridge that links these two worlds together. TRANSCRIPT
This film was produced with the help of students and faculty from Escola Salesiana São José – Campinas, Brazil, and is part of a larger documentary to be released in 2018.
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