interchange Rocinha/ Brazil - Sendai/ Japan (visual da Rocinha)

The I2I cinema class always had great success among the kids. And when we got the opportunity of an exchange with a japanese NGO, the cinema class found itself a new project to work on. A project to be shared and seen on the other side of the world... The kids were obviously really excited and the project took off quite easily: 
The five english classes would pick up what they would like to show about Rocinha and present it in english:  The sunday market, Sao Conrado beach, Visual, the samba school Academicos da Rocinha and Tio Lino's art studio were chosen. 
The photo class would walk around Rocinha and take pictures of said selected subjects.
The cinema class would make a film out of the pictures and insert the english comments. 


All the classes got to work on the same project at the same time, which makes it such a special work for everyone. You can watch the Visual (aka the top of the hill) video at the top of that post, with comments from my english class, and check out the other videos here.


A few months later, american volunteer Drew brought even more cinema to Rocinha and the institut. The cinema class had already been going on for a while but Drew brought it to a whole new dimension, bringing digitals cameras and network exposure to Rocinha (he presented his work with the kids on CNN). 
Watch Aline and Ana Luiza presenting you their favorite place in Rocinha: the beauty salon...

Cinema seems to be an amazing vector of opportunity for I2I as former cinema teacher Ana Paula is now going to take 3 of our students to Italy in july in order for them to assist to a film festival she's currently working for.