Attendees: General public
Debate speakers: Lee, Sam, Students at Cursinho Popular Martin Luthar King
This was such a special night. Lucia, from the film, and some others from Cursinho Popular Martin Luthar King, went to the screening. We showed our film, had a short debate, then showed their film, Resist. Lucia was sitting in the front row with me and she was so emotional the whole time watching the film. Nothing like seeing it on the big screen! After the film finished, the they all went up: Lucia, Nicole, Mattheus, Maria Clara, Marcelo. Marlos filmed it - he prefers to stay out of the limelight. Lucia was saying that the film showed that even with all the barriers, it was possible for a young, black, mother to go to university. Someone asked her what was the biggest barriers, she said it is mostly males who say to her she should be at home and not in education.
A woman in the audience who came alone said she is 28 and has been trying to pass the university exam for something like ten years every single year but she has not passed yet, but that she will. Nicole inited her there and then to come to Cursinho this Saturday. She and others are great because they do things from heart without having to think about it.
There were some university professors there and they invited the guys to show Resistance at MacKenzie University, one of the best known private universities in Brazil. It was shown end of October, as was More Earth Will Fall, in a screening with the creators of Favela Bairro in Rio, an urbanisation project of favelas.
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