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A reflection on the Pacifying Police Units (UPPs) via the politically-informed dialogues of performing artists from some of Rio’s communities. Including Cathola, a musician who was shot and arrested by the police soon after an UPP was installed in the Cantagalo favela, where he lives. Through music and performances tackling the subject of social exclusion and police brutality, these artists question the rhetoric of pacification and debate to what extent the arrival of UPPs represents an intensification of a process of criminalizing poverty.
Jason O’Hara
Documentary filmmaker, he has made films in over 25 countries. He directed footage for series Nature of Things and The Fifth Estate, broadcast by Canadian network CBS, and for TVO’s Why Poverty, among others. He is currently producing a documentary about the compulsory removals in Rio de Janeiro communities, on account of urban renovations for the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics.
