Freedom
SDG 16: Peace, Justice and Institutions • 8m 15s
Brazil’s African slave descendants, the Quilombola, have fought a long and hard struggle for recognition. After the abolition of the slave trade they were left abandoned and ostracised, devoid of rights and outside of Brazilian mainstream society. But things are slowly changing amongst rural communities.
In the 1988 constitution Brazil’s Quilombola were granted access to land rights and since then they have been actively building a way to secure land titles on the sites where many have lived for generations. Community mapping is an important tool in this process, as is increasing awareness amongst the Brazilian population through education and ecotourism.
‘Freedom’ looks at two Quilombola communities, one with no land title and one benefitting from legal recognition, and examines the disparities between them.
Director: Paul Redman
Producer: Tim Lewis
2015 | 8 min
Latin America | Brazil
Languages: Portuguese
Subtitles: Portuguese, English, Indonesian, Spanish
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