film

TV Rappy

User Rating	1 2 3 4 5
Producer(s)	Paper Tiger Television
Director(s)	Beti Formaggini
Release Date	1994
Runtime	7 min
Format(s)	video
Language(s)	English
Youth Media	no

Film Description

This video is an effective example of the use of video with and by community groups, and of the empowerment involved in creating self-representations. Formaggini taught a group of Rio de Janeiro street kids how to use high-8 video equipment. The kids use the medium to represent themselves, parodying and taking issue with their representation in the Brazilian mass news media. Brazilian media shows them as police cases - violent, drug-addicted kids without humanity. In TV Rappy, the kids record their own point of view - their culture, their humanity, their dreams. In Portuguese, transcript in English.