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- Ricardo de Olivera is a Brazilian 'pedreiro', a real rebel architect. He has built over 100 houses with no formal training while utilizing the most basic tools, all within his local community of Rocinha, Brazil's largest favela, situated right in the center of Rio de Janeiro. Working on a variety of projects across the favela, including his own house, Ricardo explains how these simple buildings meet the social and budgetary needs of their clients. But as the city gears up for the World Cup and Olympic Games, life in Rocinha is changing and even Ricardo cannot escape the violence spilling over from the government's favela 'pacification' program. Whilst Ricardo struggles to provide a better life for his own family, Brazil's new profile on the world stage has also led to an influx of urban planners, NGOs and well-meaning architects, all hoping to improve the physical conditions of the favela - and bringing with them the very real threat of gentrification. Luis Carlos Toledo, the architect behind the master plan for the government's regeneration of Rocinha, was considered a radical for working on favela urbanization long before it became fashionable and says living conditions can and must be improved. However, even he starts to question the benefits of an attention-grabbing cable-car system, whilst thousands of residents are still without access to education or health care. The battle for the future of Brazil's favelas is on.
- Award-winning photographer Neo Ntsoma revisits DJ Cleo and the stars of South Africa's democratic dawn to take new portraits and discuss the impact of both apartheid and freedom on their lives. In this frank and emotional film, Ntsoma recounts the obstacles facing a black female photographer in apartheid South Africa. "I was 22 years old. I was just thrown out of photo school for being a black woman pursuing a career, which was seen as inappropriate. I ended up having to work night shifts at The Star, taking pictures of news events . - I was just so sick of all those negative things." But as Nelson Mandela was freed and apartheid dismantled, she found herself part of a new movement. "In the early 90's, something new was happening in South Africa. We were full of energy and exploded with our dreams and ambitions onto the scene. We wanted to be - to create dance, music and fashion. So I took photographs of what was happening around me." Two decades later, the people in Ntsoma's original photographs are today's superstars, and her quest to retake their portraits forces her to look at the price she and many of her generation paid in the transition to freedom.
- Emeka Okereke leads a bus-load of artists and photographers for the Invisible Borders road trip of a lifetime as they search for new ways to portray their continent and explore their art. "A photograph is a window, and not the view. Don't photograph what you see, photograph what you feel," says Emeka. It is something he will try and teach young photographer Lilian Novo, for whom the trip is a first attempt at art photography. The group set off from Lagos and head overland to the Democratic Republic of Congo in a minivan, but soon discover that driving across Africa during rainy season presents environmental, psychological and bureaucratic challenges. The journey is made harder by Emeka's moral refusal to pay any bribes at border crossings. "Every year we go on a road trip across Africa with photographers and other artists. I can help them become better photographers, but it's the experience of the journey that makes the person," he says.