When the Home is the Street

Synopsis

What makes children turn to the streets? How can street-connectedness be overcome? This documentary tries to answer these questions with testimonies and daily life images of youth who grew up on the streets of Mexico City and Rio de Janeiro.

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Credits

  • Direction, scrip and production: THERESA JESSOUROUN
  • General coordinator: PROJETO "TRANSFORMING THE LIVES OF STREET CHILDREN" - CIESPI/PUC-Rio: IRENE RIZZINI & MARIA CRISTINA BÓ - CODENI: DANIELLE STRICKLAND
  • Editors: THERESA JESSOUROUN, LUIZ GUIMARÃES DE CASTRO
  • Sound Editing and mixing: DAMIÃO LOPES
  • Colour Correction: GERSON SILVA
  • Production Assistant/direction: JULIANA CHAGAS
  • Production Assistant: ANA GABRIELA RIBEIRO
  • Art: LUIZ FELIPE THOME
  • DP and cameraman (Rio de Janeiro): ALBERTO BELLEZIA,LUIS ABRAMO
  • Soundman (Rio de Janeiro): PAULO HENRIQUE DA SILVA (PH),CARLOS SOTTO (MANO)
  • DP and cameraman (Cidade do México): PEDRO URANO
  • Soundman (Cidade do México): MARCOS CANTANHEDE
  • Year of production: 2012.

Prizes and Festivals

  • Best Medium Length Documentary at 8th Latin America Human Rights Watch Festival (8ª Muestra Cine y Derechos Humanos en Sudamerica).
Produced to CIESPI - International Center for Research and Policy on Childhood, and sponsored by Fetzer Institute (USA).

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