Sao Paulo is a swelling, burgeoning metropolis that is likely the largest city in the

Americas. It is also the centerpiece of Brazil's capitalistic juggernaut.

This dynamism has created great shifts in the stability of those on the edge of
economic security. One of the consequences has been pockets and neighbourhoods
falling victim to surges of crime and in the case of 'Cracolandia', illegal drug use.
Julio Docjar is a graffiti artist dedicated to rejuvenating his neighbourhood and
helping his neighbours.
Starting with a mobile art workshop and then setting up a series of small residential
shelters, Julio is dedicated to helping the vulnerable around him find stability and
through art and find a voice to demand social equity that will bring change and make
their lives better.

FILMMAKER'S VIEW
By Guta Pacheco & Willem Dias
GUTA PACHECO

Guta Pacheco began her career in television,

editing news and documentary series
programs, and she's in the cinema industry
for almost ten years as Film Editor, working
with fiction films, documentaries and TV
series. Editing is her great passion but from
two years until now, she has been directing
social documentaries. She is part of the art
collective calledcasadalapa , in Sao Paulo, a
group of artists activists that think and do
works about social and political issues for
more than ten years. She is graduated on
Journalism, and has a specialisation degree

in Film Editing at Escuela Internacional de

Cine y Television (EICTV), in Cuba.

Sao Paulo is a very big, very populous city, full of professional and cultural
opportunities. However it has social inequality to the extreme. It is more and more
common for the upper class to lock themselves away in gated luxury condos, while
the poor are neglected by society and abandoned by the government.
This social abandonment affects over 500,000 families; families who do not have
access to basic citizenship rights such as education, healthcare and housing;
families who do not battle for their rights because they do not even know they exist;
families who cannot get out of their miserable circumstances because the
opportunities are not available to them.
It is a reality that needs to combine ideologies and actions as varied as possible in
order to bring dignity to these families. And that is why we found the work of the
street artist, Julio Dojcsar, so special and inspiring.