30 minutes. Two friends. One pandemic. Art vs. survival — who wins?
Two young black friends from the same hood thrive a future as artists, but everything changes when the COVID-19 pandemic becomes a global issue and art can no longer be the main source of their income. Even thought, each in their own way, they strugle to continue with their artistic goals, besides the government and the circumstances conspiring against their ambitions.
Acting
Weezy and Pedro Freitas feel like actual friends, not performers.
Direction
Ítalo Almeida captures Belo Horizonte's specific hunger and heat.
Writing
Dialogue that actually sounds like people talking, not script pages.
Director
Ítalo Almeida
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in Belo Horizonte's peripheral neighborhoods, the film emerged from Brazil's Black cinema wave documenting pandemic-era precarity.
Weezy is a real Belo Horizonte rapper; the robbery scene was improvised when an actual incident interrupted filming.
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