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Prestes Maia, Bianca Suyama.
Brazil
Winner - Category 1: Lack of Access to Basic Services.
Micro-documentaries Series "The Faces of Exclusion".
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Prestes Maia, Bianca Suyama.
Brazil Date: July 03, 2007 Description:Winner - Category 1: Lack of Access to Basic Services. Prestes Maia recounts the occupation by homeless families in Sao Paulo of an abandoned building with a large amount of unpaid taxes. The Movimiento de los Sin Techo Centro (Downtown Homeless Movement—MSTC) is a social movement that occupies such buildings to meet the housing needs of thousands of poor families and is continually confronted by the police.
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Salud en los Matsinguengas del Bajo Urubamba (The Health of the Matsinguengas of the Lower Urubamba River),
Henry Pilares Frisancho.
Perú Date: July 03, 2007 Description:Honorable Mention - Category 1: Lack of Access to Basic Services. Many indigenous Matsinguenga communities near the Camisea gas pipeline lack basic health services. The sick often have to travel by river on fragile canoes and boats to find a medical center. The documentary illustrates the contradiction between the inhabitants’ lack of access to medical services and the wealth of the place where they live. The income derived from the exploitation of Camisea’s natural gas deposits has been the underlying cause of the accelerated growth that Peru has experienced since mid-2003. The microdocumentary presents a series of testimonials by the residents of the Lower Urubamba area.
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El espejismo de una redención (Illusion of Deliverance),
Carlos Andrés Grisales Tabares.
Colombia Date: July 03, 2007 Description:Winner - Category 2: Lack of Access to Institutions. El espejismo de una redención is a microdocumentary that tells the story of a child of the streets who lied to the documentary’s producers about his situation. When the filmmaker’s family attempts to reunite him with his family they learn that he has neither a home nor a family, and they finally turn him over to the institutions of the Colombian State.
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Posseiros (Squatters),
Caio Chatagnier.
Brasil Date: July 03, 2007 Description:Honorable Mention - Category 2: Lack of Access to Institutions. Posseiros tells the story of a family that practices subsistence agriculture on a piece of land passed down from one generation to the next. The owner of that property reasserts his claim to the land, however, and resorts to the legal system to expel the long-time squatters. Micro-documentaries Series "The Faces of Exclusion".
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Gaspar,
Caio Chatagnier.
Brasil Date: July 03, 2007 Description:Winner - Category 3: Lack of Identity Documents. At the age of 78, Gaspar has no identity documents, and none of his previous employers has registered him with the authorities. He consequently has no access to the social security system or to rural pensions. His income is so low that he does not even have enough money to pay for the cost of obtaining his documents.
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