Remix To Rio
Another big winner at COMMFF-
EST is Canadian Filmmaker Ravi Steve wins Best Youth Documentary. His film Remix to Rio is a one hour documenatry that follows Canada’s most innovative youth outreach organization, REMIX Project, REMIX-to-RIO follows youth outreach project co-founders Gavin and Drex as they travel to Rio De Janeiro and join forces with Sandro, an Exdrug lord turned activist in hopes of constructing a recording studio for disadvantaged youth in the Favela known as “The Enchanted Land” (Tera Encontada). We watch this global partnership unfurl as they bring the REMIX model to Rio and try to construct a recording studio for disadvantaged youth in Sandro’s home Favela
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known as “The Enchanted Land”. Gavin and crew also bring four of their brightest students to Rio. The HUTUZ Hip-Hop festival, Latin America’s largest Hip-hop festival, is in full swing and sets the scene for the REMIX kids to test the skills they’ve been honing over the last 6 months. Most of these kids have never traveled outside of their ‘hoods, let alone over seas. The culture shock they experience and the perspectives they gain are life changing. As their big Hip-hop concert approaches the REMIX Crew decide to enlist the help of the young drummers from a local music outreach program based in a notoriously violent community.
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