Wednesday 06 Jul 2011
06
Film: Saneamento Básico (Basic Sanitation) (2007)
6 Jul 2011, 7:30 p.m.
Upbeat and comic look at social activism by the celebrated Brazilian director Jorge Furtado. A small town overwhelmed by the smell of sewage desperately needs a new drainage ditch, but there are no public funds for such a project. When one villager realizes they do have funds for creating a fiction video, she drafts a screenplay for a horror film, hoping to use the film as a smoke screen for building a drainage ditch. Of course, making a film proves to be harder than the town expects.