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Pet rams, streetside accordionists: East Austin is certainly not lacking in character. But as Texas’s capital city gentrifies, the neighborhood’s spirit fades. This melancholy documentary is the second film by Indie Grits alum Carlo Nasisse to screen in the festival— Coby & Stephen Are in Love appears in On Love & Other Connections.
The documentary deals with the experiences, pain and dreams of three black solo mothers from the outskirts. Joelma is the coordinator of the Mário Andrade Community Center, a space created from a tragedy that unfortunately repeated itself and left thousands of victims in Brazil and around the world: the loss of a child due to police brutality and abuse of authority. With the Center, Joelma, Patrícia and collaborators, despite the painful past, transform Mário Andrade's memory into hope and care, helping more than a thousand families in the Paz e Amor community, where it is located.
