"Os Jogos (The Games)" Trailer

On October 2, 2009, thousands of Brazilians on Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana Beach erupted in celebration as the 'Marvelous City' was named host of the 2016 Summer Olympic Games. Guaranteeing tens of billions of dollars in infrastructure investment and an inevitable spike in tourism revenue, hosting the Summer Games also marks Brazil's entrance onto the world's stage as an 'emerged' economy, and primes Rio for sweeping change. The future has never looked brighter for the 'country of tomorrow.'

But what effect will this sweeping change and influx of funds have on a city already beset by poverty, violence and endemic corruption? As many of Rio's poor are relocated farther from the city center to make way for massive infrastructure projects and Brazil's youth struggle to obtain an adequate education, many citizens question the wisdom of allocating an unprecedented amount of government funds to improving the city's most affluent regions when many residents still don't have running water.

While some of these displaced citizens complain, however, many are proud of their city's ascent and are indifferent—or oblivious—to the imminent changes that will forever change the social landscape of the world's most beautiful city.

Over the next five years, 'Os Jogos (The Games)' will follow four cariocas that hail from wildly divergent sectors of Rio's society: a soccer-obsessed high school student, a leader of a community facing relocation, a budding entrepreneur and a pacifist police officer. The film will examine the effects of the international games on their lives; and in a macro sense, 'Os Jogos' will investigate the effects of international sporting mega-events on the cities that host them.

By weaving these intimate, personal perspectives into the macrocontext of... we'll investigate: Who wins? Who loses? Or are the effects more complex than clear-cut winners and losers?

"Os Jogos (The Games)" is currently in-production and seeking funding and grants for continued production, leading up to the Olympics.

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Film & Animation

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