DEFIANT
Documentário | 90 min | Coraci Ruiz e Julio Matos
After years of living on the streets, Suzy found in activism a new professional path. Drawing on her experience as a beneficiary of social programs, she reinvented herself as a leadership. Today, she is committed to caring for vulnerable people and confronting transphobia in the conservative city of Campinas, in Brazil’s interior. A trans, Black woman from the outskirts, Suzy went from the streets into politics.
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DIRECTORS
Coraci Ruiz and Julio Matos have been documentary filmmakers since 2003, when they founded the production company Cisco Lab, which specialises in documentaries about popular culture, human rights and the environment.
Coraci has a degree in Dance, a Master's in Audiovisual Culture and Media and a PhD in Multimedia, all from Unicamp. Julio Matos has a BA in Sociology from Unicamp and an MA in Media and Communication from Goldsmiths University of London.
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3 Years researching and shooting
51 Shooting days
150 hours raw footage
Status: Editing - Post-production
Estimated release: November, 2025
