{"id":31697,"date":"2016-08-12T11:02:44","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T14:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rioonwatch.org\/?p=31697"},"modified":"2025-08-07T12:07:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T15:07:07","slug":"festival-reimagine-rio-captures-innovation-and-of-rios-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/?p=31697","title":{"rendered":"Uplifting Festival Reimagine Rio Captures Innovation of Rio&#8217;s Communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2b5Vcn0\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>Clique aqui para Portugu\u00eas<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-23766\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rioonwatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/PT-e1439583827971.png\" \/><\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With a premiere screening of the film, <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2aWbim3\" target=\"_blank\">Bad &amp; the Birdieman<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/29W3e3Y\" target=\"_blank\">Festival Reimagine Rio<\/a> was officially launched on July 30 in Chacrinha, a favela\u00a0located in <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1jfeZUX\" target=\"_blank\">Jacarepagu\u00e1<\/a>, in Rio de Janeiro&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1kZa7gI\" target=\"_blank\">West Zone<\/a>. The festival, an initiative by <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/29W3e3Y\" target=\"_blank\">Rise Up &amp; Care<\/a>, aims to show the city from the perspective of exceptional\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1R9wv8L\" target=\"_blank\">community-led projects<\/a> that have created\u00a0inspiration, innovation, and new relationships among their participants. With this in mind, Rise Up &amp; Care founders Kirk Bowman and Jon Wilcox\u00a0teamed up with\u00a0Brazilian filmmaker <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.to\/2aEu2aL\" target=\"_blank\">K\u00e1tia Lund<\/a> to produce\u00a0five full-length documentaries, each about a unique and\u00a0inspirational community initiative. All five films were shot in communities of Rio over the course of a year, adding a piece to the cultural mosaic\u00a0of the city that is Rio de Janeiro.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Reimagine Rio Festival August 2016!\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0O7tTTSEpPE?start=10&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Bowman\u00a0hopes the festival will help present\u00a0&#8220;a new vision of Rio&#8221; during the Olympic Games that goes beyond the negative images <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1tKsXCf\" target=\"_blank\">shown in international media<\/a> about the city and in particular its favelas.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The film series rejects the negative images in the news and common stereotypes about these maligned communities and exposes Rio from below, from the roots and the communities, the beautiful, innovative and generous Rio.&#8221; &#8211; Kirk Bowman<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Through the end of August, there will be 425 screenings of the five films throughout Greater\u00a0Rio including\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1wAJ14x\" target=\"_blank\">Baixada Fluminense<\/a>, as documented in a <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2aPb6TQ\" target=\"_blank\">map<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2aZQS8J\" target=\"_blank\">official schedule<\/a>. Launching an innovative distribution model, the organizers hired ten distribution agents across Rio who then worked with dozens of &#8216;localizers&#8217; identifying churches, public squares, community centers and other locations in favelas citywide\u00a0to feature the films, making them universally accessible. The goal is that they&#8217;re widely seen by residents of favelas themselves, &#8220;to share these transformative and positive stories in the community showings. The world largely maligns the favelas and the people in peripheral communities. So we love that distribution,&#8221; explains Bowman.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/d\/embed?mid=1jhuinohERMdIGzuMFwddE6IePfs\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Just in favelas, the films will be screened at 74 locations for free. The movies are\u00a0also being shown at mainstream theaters like Esta\u00e7\u00e3o Net Rio, Esta\u00e7\u00e3o Net Ipanema, Esta\u00e7\u00e3o Net G\u00e1vea, Esta\u00e7\u00e3o Net Barra Point, Cine J\u00f3ia Copacabana, Cine Santa, and Point Cine from August 11 to 17. <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2aPBux6\" target=\"_blank\">Cine Manguinhos<\/a> will\u00a0be running a full-day marathon of all five films for free on August 13. There will be official premiere screenings of each film in the respective communities in which\u00a0they were filmed.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Movies travel, inspire and reflect poetically the reality on the ground.&#8221; &#8211; Kirk Bowman<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-31707 size-full\" title=\"Festival Reimagine Rio Premiere Schedule\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rioonwatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/13903198_915814035193736_4872543082603790881_n.png\" width=\"630\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/13903198_915814035193736_4872543082603790881_n.png 630w, https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/13903198_915814035193736_4872543082603790881_n-300x240.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/h3>\n<h3>Read more about each of the films and their premieres\u00a0in the communities where they were filmed below. Note that the official premiere of each film will be celebrated by the community at hand with performances and festivities. All are welcome.<\/h3>\n<p>As Bowman\u00a0explains, &#8220;Our main goals are to celebrate the achievement Miratus, Jongo da Serrinha, Guti and Nos do Morro, Cinema Nosso, and Circo Crescer e Viver with the premieres at those communities.&#8221; So please join in for those premieres over the coming days:<\/p>\n<h3>Bad &amp; the Birdieman<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rioonwatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/peteca.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-content wp-image-31743\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rioonwatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/peteca-620x264.jpg\" alt=\"'Bad &amp; the Birdieman'\" width=\"620\" height=\"264\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2aWbim3\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Bad &amp; the Birdieman<\/em><\/a> tells the story of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2aEsLAw\" target=\"_blank\">Associa\u00e7\u00e3o Miratus de Badminton<\/a>, an organization founded by Sebasti\u00e3o Dias de Oliveira in 1998 that has introduced badminton to\u00a0kids in Chacrinha, located in Rio&#8217;s West Zone. The <a href=\"http:\/\/bbc.in\/29bvLPG\" target=\"_blank\">introduction of samba techniques<\/a>\u00a0to the sport of badminton has led to the qualification of some students\u00a0for the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1pXMFVa\" target=\"_blank\">2016 Olympic Games<\/a>\u00a0and is an example of how\u00a0innovation and perseverance can break barriers to accomplishing dreams. They were recently featured in a widely shared <a href=\"http:\/\/nyti.ms\/2b3yspW\" target=\"_blank\"><em>New York Times<\/em> video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The film was premiered in Chacrinha on July 30 and will be showing at multiple locations in Rio through\u00a0August 30.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_31736\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31736\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rioonwatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/audience.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-content wp-image-31736\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rioonwatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/audience-620x264.jpg\" alt=\"The emotion is palpable as community members watch their peers being celebrated on screen.\" width=\"620\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/audience-620x264.jpg 620w, https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/audience-940x400.jpg 940w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31736\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The emotion was palpable as community members watched their peers being celebrated on screen.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_31737\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31737\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rioonwatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/badminton.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-content wp-image-31737\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rioonwatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/badminton-620x264.jpg\" alt=\"Sebasti\u00e3o, the badminton team's trainer, whose son made it onto the Brazilian Olympic team, was visibly moved by the film depicting his labor of love.\" width=\"620\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/badminton-620x264.jpg 620w, https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/badminton-940x400.jpg 940w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31737\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sebasti\u00e3o, the badminton team&#8217;s trainer, whose son made it onto the Brazilian Olympic team, was visibly moved by the film depicting his labor of love.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>Gira &amp; the Circus of Life<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rioonwatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/gira.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-content wp-image-31745\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rioonwatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/gira-620x264.jpg\" alt=\"'Gira &amp; the Circus of Life'\" width=\"620\" height=\"264\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2aF9qze\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Gira &amp; the Circus of Life<\/em><\/a> tells the story of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2b8C4Fg\" target=\"_blank\">Circo Crescer e Viver<\/a>, a social circus in Rio&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1iwThVm\" target=\"_blank\">Port region<\/a> founded by childhood friends Vinicius and Junior. For ten years, the circus has contributed to social and human development through culture and circus arts for residents of nearby communities.\u00a0Its unique model of education and inclusion has had a real impact on the lives of the young people.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Gira &amp; the Circus of Life&#8221; premiered last night, on August 11, at 8PM, at the circus itself, on Pra\u00e7a Onze.<\/p>\n<h3>Movie Motion Magic<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-31757 size-content\" title=\"Nosso Cinema Nosso Trailer\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rioonwatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Captura-de-Tela-2016-08-12-a\u0300s-12.31.15-620x264.png\" alt=\"Nosso Cinema Nosso\" width=\"620\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Captura-de-Tela-2016-08-12-a\u0300s-12.31.15-620x264.png 620w, https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Captura-de-Tela-2016-08-12-a\u0300s-12.31.15-940x400.png 940w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2b9v3nE\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Movie Motion Magic<\/em><\/a> follows six members of the initiative <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2aOkBEh\" target=\"_blank\">Cinema Nosso<\/a>. Cinema Nosso has brought the world of film and audiovisual production to low-income and marginalized communities, with the objective of producing films that touch on topics and themes that are\u00a0easily accessible to participants. The film follows six filmmakers as they are faced with a challenge: to make a film within a film.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Movie Motion Magic&#8221; will premiere tonight, August 12, at 7PM, at Cinema Nosso, in Lapa.<\/p>\n<h3>Jongo Fever<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rioonwatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/jongo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-content wp-image-31746\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rioonwatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/jongo-620x264.jpg\" alt=\"'Jongo Fever'\" width=\"620\" height=\"264\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2bbnwZA\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Jongo Fever<\/em><\/a> tells the powerful story of the women of Jongo da Serrinha, a community located in <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/20YWyHZ\" target=\"_blank\">Madureira<\/a>, and their fight for <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1yrpObS\" target=\"_blank\">Afro-Brazilian culture<\/a>. With roots\u00a0in Angola, the Afro-Brazilian music and dance tradition of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2a9ccJi\" target=\"_blank\">Jongo<\/a>\u00a0has\u00a0encountered\u00a0significant\u00a0prejudice in Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jongo Fever&#8221; will premiere on August 13, at 6PM, in <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2aJYmwp\" target=\"_blank\">Jongo da Serrinha<\/a>, Madureira.<\/p>\n<h3>Guti &amp; the Theater of Dreams<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2aNcy79\" target=\"_blank\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-31713 size-content\" title=\"Guti Fraga at Campinho Show. Photo by N\u00f3s do Morro\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rioonwatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Guti-Fraga-620x264.jpg\" alt=\"Guti Fraga\" width=\"620\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Guti-Fraga-620x264.jpg 620w, https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Guti-Fraga-940x400.jpg 940w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2aNcy79\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Guti &amp; the Theater of Dreams<\/em><\/a> follows the performance of students of\u00a0Guti Fraga, who has dedicated his life to opening up the world of arts and culture to people of all ages in the community of <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/T5QI5Q\" target=\"_blank\">Vidigal<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2aKrTpu\" target=\"_blank\">Campinho Show<\/a>, an initiative by the group\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2b8DXCc\" target=\"_blank\">N\u00f3s do Morro<\/a> launched in 2009, has brought\u00a0music, dance, poetry, and theater to young people in the favela. It is an invitation to arts and culture that will continue to bring all kinds of people together.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Guti &amp; the Theater of Dreams&#8221; will premiere will premiere on Sunday, August 14, at 6:30PM, at the Vila Ol\u00edmpica of Vidigal, where the Campinho Show takes place every month.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_31739\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31739\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rioonwatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Festival-sign.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-31739 size-content\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rioonwatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Festival-sign-620x264.jpg\" alt=\"Festival sign\" width=\"620\" height=\"264\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31739\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Padre Miguel film screenings will take place August 12-14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Clique aqui para Portugu\u00eas With a premiere screening of the film, Bad &amp; the Birdieman,\u00a0Festival Reimagine Rio was officially launched on July 30 in Chacrinha, a favela\u00a0located in Jacarepagu\u00e1, in Rio de Janeiro&#8217;s West Zone. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/?p=31697\" title=\"Uplifting Festival Reimagine Rio Captures Innovation of Rio&#8217;s Communities\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":113,"featured_media":31708,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1288,1290,1333,1268,1334,329,1329],"tags":[1448,1361,9,662,460,2163,756,771,258,364,504,221,1499,602,1883,637,1366,318,2166,148,571,207,363],"writer":[2133],"translator":[],"illustrator":[],"photographer":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-31697","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-highlight","8":"category-civilsociety","9":"category-event-reports","10":"category-favelaculture","11":"category-reviews","12":"category-solutions","13":"category-by-international-observers","14":"tag-favelasareassets","15":"tag-endfavelastigma","16":"tag-9","17":"tag-afro-brazilian-culture","18":"tag-baixada-fluminense","19":"tag-chacrinha","20":"tag-community-organizing","21":"tag-community-pride","22":"tag-community-solution","23":"tag-community-based-organization-cbo","24":"tag-culture","25":"tag-favela-culture","26":"tag-festival","27":"tag-film","28":"tag-jongo","29":"tag-manguinhos","30":"tag-analyzing-media-portrayal-of-favelas","31":"tag-performing-arts","32":"tag-port","33":"tag-port-region","34":"tag-samba","35":"tag-sports","36":"tag-vidigal","37":"writer-alix-vadot"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/113"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81341,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31697\/revisions\/81341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31697"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fwriter&post=31697"},{"taxonomy":"translator","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftranslator&post=31697"},{"taxonomy":"illustrator","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fillustrator&post=31697"},{"taxonomy":"photographer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fphotographer&post=31697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}