A third $10,000 grant was awarded to the Brazilian filmmaker Ricardo Martensen for his project Regarding Memory and Neglect

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

What is left of us after death? Bones? Belongings? Images? Memories? For how long do these traces of existence remain on Earth? These are the questions that guide this film through five stories from different times in Brazil. In all of them, something in common: the imposition of oblivion. A cemetery located in a poor region of São Paulo has been a place of concealment of corpses since its foundation in the early 1970s. A forensic laboratory seeks to understand what the bones of people buried 50 years ago have to tell us. Mothers fight for memory, truth and justice since their sons were murdered by the Military Police in São Paulo in 2006. A small institution seeks to tell the story of the largest slave port in the world hidden under layers of concrete in Rio de Janeiro.