Everest, the highest mountain in the world attracts hundreds of climbers, mostly white men with the finances to pay for the undertaking, around R$ 400.000,00. Aretha Duarte, from a poor neighborhood in Campinas, becomes the first black latin woman to reach the summit in 2021. To pay for the trip, she works collecting recyclables and triggers an environmental awareness process in her town that expands through social media making her an inspiring public figure owing to her persistence and energy. She dreams that more people of a similar background may attain the heights.
Roberta Estrela D’Alva e Tatiana Lohmann
Roberta Estrela D’Alva is an actress, director, researcher and Brazilian slam poetry pioneer. She co-directed, together with Tatiana Lohmann, Slam: Sworded Words (2017), which won the prize for Best Direction and the Special Jury Prize at Rio Int'l Film Festival. Tatiana Lohmann is a documentarist. She directs, photographs, writes and edits series, films and videoclips. Besides Slam, she directed the features Solidão & Fé (2010) and My Fortress (2019).
