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Making of the Movie-Manifest: Behind the World
April 3rd was a big for Corposinalizante, street intervention, as we used to say.
We started with three posters, two brumes, one tray and a giant jar of glue. All of the Corposinalizante participants, Amarilis, Alex, Leo, Luciana, Cibele, Daina, Joana, Lorran and Felipe and TV Brasil camera crew, who arrived on that day with an air of threat (at least that’s what I thought).
The van that would take us to all of the three places (Rede Globo, Columbia Pictures and Cine Sesc) arrived. And inside the van we agreed on how we would talk to the people at Globo and where we would hang the poster – Globo was the first place chosen by Corposinalizante.
I’ll talk about the first round because it was the longest, most difficult, hardest and most interesting one. When we got there, through gate 1, the security guards were already watching us, but we didn’t really mind, we opened the poster with Sabrina’s picture and went in through the visitors entrance.
Leo was the first one to say to a woman that we wanted to see someone responsible for the subtitles in films or something similar. The security guard came and blocked the camera in the entrance, but Leo was still there with Alex, Amarilis, Luciana and me. After that, the receptionist made us questions like “do you have an appointment?”. We kept asking, and the only thing we got was the phone number of the person responsible. We went out of the network’s reception.
We used a cell phone to call, and someone answered. Amarilis started to explain each detail about Corposinalizante, how many people were part of the group and their reasons. Alex and Leo also spoke about that and the guy who answered the phone seemed to agree to come down and talk to us. However, he asked us to wait 40 minutes.
Since we had 40 minutes to spare, we went to Berrini Avenue, where there’s a blank wall in front of Globo. There would be the place to hang our poster with Sabrina’s picture.
One thing happened before that: a certain security guard from another building wrote a message in a piece of paper, I couldn’t really read it, I understood “License now!”, so I didn’t give it attention. But I read it again and it wasn’t “License now!”, it was “Subtitles now!”.
That surprised me.. and the group went over to the security guard to ask him why. His answer surprised me even more: I don’t know what you are talking about, but I believe that the deaf should have subtitles… Something like that.
After hanging the poster in the wall, no danger, no security guards were watching us. Not even the rain came, the sun appeared, and yes, we were very hungry, since it was already 1 p.m.
Hanging up the poster was no problem: me and Leo were the broom’s owners, Alex took care of the glue and the tray, Lorran took care of Sabrina’s giant poster.
The poster was ready, glued in the wall within 40 minutes. We took pictures and went to Globo’s entrance once again. The guys still weren’t there, even after 45 minutes. We stayed there, drinking water, eating some fruits, waiting for a few minutes…
They arrived, two women and a man. We all stoop up rapidly (since we were sitting down, resting in the shadow, because the sun was killing us) specially Alex, who was in front of them, I don’t remember how it started, I just remember the woman hid behind the men when she was caught by the camera.
The woman asked: who is responsible for the group?, we didn’t now what to say and Alex said we were all responsible, so the woman invited us to enter. Alex, Leo and Amarilis went in.
They talked a lot, it took about 30 minutes (which is a lot!).
Leo, Alex and Amarilis came back, looking half successful and half unhappy, and holding a folder with information given by Globo. They showed it to the team. It had a phone card, a list of programs that they transmit with closed caption and other stuff. So Leo and Alex explained in front of the cameras what happened inside the reception.
And we finished our first round…
Photo: Cibele Lucena
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