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The purpose of this film is to educate, enlighten, and hopefully, help bring an end to a brand of violence that has become culturally and socially accepted in one of the largest countries in the world. WE STILL NEED HELP! Many of you have asked us what you can do to help the project. Now you can! We have merchandise for sale. All you have to do is go to our "Pics" to see what we have. Pay for it through our paypal account and send us a message to let us know what you ordered. There is no shipping and it should get to you within a week or so. Thanks for helping! leave a comment
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the film

Title: Our World
Issue: Hate Crimes
Director/Producer: M Pink Christofalo
Producer: Dan Reynolds
Key Crew: Van Abernathy, Marcelle Dias, Nando Gomes, Deya Feijo, Fiano Paiva, Gui Zaiden
In 2006 the United Nations released a report naming Brazil as the country with the largest number of hate crimes on the planet. This film will show a variety of first-hand accounts from adolescents who have been brutalized by society as well as their families. It will also follow some of their aggressors and even community leaders who advocate these crimes. We will reveal, without bias, a variety of perspectives on a critical subject that has been kept in the dark for far too long. OUR WORLD - DOCUMENTARY

did you know?

Last year, more than 400 gays, lesbians and transsexuals were killed in Brazil as a result of hate crimes; the largest number recorded of any nation. Law enforcement officials presume, in actuality, that number to be double, taking into consideration that half the time, victims refuse to press charges or even admit to the cause of the violence they suffered. Further still, authorities across the country have noticed one commonality amongst all reported crimes: Two out of three victims are under the age of eighteen. In October of 2007, we placed ads on the internet, in newspapers, and over the radio asking anyone who had suffered prejudice because of their sexuality to write in telling their story. They were also told that in sending in their stories they were beginning to dialogue with us about potentially participating in a documentary. Over three-thousand letters arrived detailing experiences of humiliation, strikes against character, unimaginable degrees of violence and death. We will be spending time with some of the people who have been victimized, but we will also be visiting a leader of the largest “white power” gang in South America. We will be interviewing the president of the Human Rights Organization of Brazil (he has been in the hospital nine times, once for a gunshot wound). Also, we have secured a lunch with a minister who claims to successfully “cure” homosexuality. the shocker: acts of violence against homosexuals are not considered a crime
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