Being teenager in Rio de Janeiro’s favelas: Behind the 2016 Brazil Olympic Games | Barber Shop Ep. 4

This episode is part of the series “Barber Shop“. Click here to get to the playlist with all 6 episodes: Brazil has well prepared itself for the Olympic Games of 2016, to embrace sports enthusiasts from all over the world. However, the people from the favelas have, as always, been forgotten. Subscribe to the channel: Follow us on Facebook: Barber Shop Brazil talks about the current state of the favela’s and of the common man’s fear, not of dealers, but of the police. This is not a film about corruption, but about the life of ordinary teenagers in one of Brazil’s most populous cities. The story plays in the outer skirts of Rio, in the Favela Jacarezinho. Barber Pedro rents the chairs in his barber shop to teenagers, but only if they stop getting involved in crime. Not only eager to learn a profession, but the teenagers of Salao Faria have also even developed a very specific hai
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