Brave Futures Collection
12 Seasons
Brave Futures is OTV’s global filmmaking initiative, challenging emerging filmmakers to create bold, intersectional short films within a limited timeframe. Through film races, artist commissions, and screenings, the program creates space for experimentation, collaboration, and new ways of storytelling.
Since 2019, Brave Futures has supported more than 400 artists across seven countries and four continents to create over 50 original short films exploring identity, culture, and our collective futures.
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08:35Episode 1Espaço Liberdade (Freedom Space)
Episode 1
It's dawn in the Liberty neighborhood. Different spaces, people and facades reveal the layers of a territory beyond the lanterns of Japanese immigration. In a pizzeria in Rua dos Estudantes, the day settles in full, from morning to dawn, observing the transformations and stories of that space. It...
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12:33Episode 2Jóia Rara (Rare Jewel)
Episode 2
Created by Juh Almeida during Brave Futures São Paolo.
Jóia Rara is a hybrid documentary that fabulates the heritage, prosperity and transmission of knowledge between generations of black Afro-diasporic women, having as a starting point the historical figure of Florinda Anna do Nascimento, know...
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06:19Episode 3Labirinto (Labrynth)
Episode 3
Yris is a trans young woman cornered by her own memories during a party. Trapped in her thoughts, she is guided by memories of her childhood in the alleys of the neighborhood where she was born, until she realizes that the child she seeks still remains within herself.