The main speaker was an anthropologist called Mariana Calvacante. She said she had been crying the whole day due to Bolsonaro winning. Anyone from the Left feels under threat because Bolsonaro, even in his policy document, said they are the enemy of the State. She said that before watching MEWF that morning in order to prepare, she had thought, "Oh, another film about Rocinha by some foreigners." But when she watched it, she was surprised that it avoided the typical stereotypes or prejudices of films about favelas. There were other friends there too from Rio. Good, intimate space to debate. The reaction was so often one of disgust at how people can live in the same city but some have so much and some so little. Interesting that in São Paulo the question of why we, from abroad, were filming in Rocinha came up plenty of times but not from a critical angle of whether we have the right. Where as in Rio this question came up quite a lot - as in, who are we to come here to make this film about something we do not know about or have no lived experience of.
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