{"id":472620,"date":"2010-03-25T08:26:37","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T12:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oxfam.org.uk\/applications\/blogs\/pressoffice\/?p=11773"},"modified":"2010-03-25T08:26:37","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T12:26:37","slug":"shooting-poverty-film-competition-where-armed-violence-is-%e2%80%9cnormal%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/472620","title":{"rendered":"Shooting Poverty film competition: Where Armed Violence is \u201cnormal\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00d8istein Thorsen, Oxfam Humanitarian Campaigner, is in Brazil for the launch of an exciting new film competition, \u2018Shooting Poverty\u2019<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

A city awash with arms and with a homicide rate higher than most of the world\u2019s conflict zones, Rio de Janeiro is suffering from a “culture of fear”. Affecting everyone.<\/p>\n

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Shooting Poverty inside the Cantagalo Favela. Credit: Oistein Thorsen<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Besides hearing one gunshot, I\u2019ve felt welcome and safe in this city so blessed with natural beauty. This is a city of extreme contradictions. In 5 minutes I walked from inside the Cantagalo Favela (Brazilian term for slum) to the tourist hotels lining Cocacobana beach. A family without running water and sewage live in a Favela within a couple of blocks of another family who have their own private heliport. Needless to say, tensions run high!<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been in Rio one week to promote Oxfam\u2019s new film competition – Shooting Poverty <\/a>– with our partner organisation Viva Rio<\/a>. In workshops and meetings with young people from a cross section of society, from design students to former gang members, 10 minute brainstorms are enough to spur about 15 story-angles on how arms trade and armed violence impacts development.<\/p>\n

Many began with “where do I start? Armed violence is an everyday issue for us”. And pretty much everyone discussed the impact of the \u2018culture of fear\u2019: limiting people\u2019s freedom of movement, and diverting hard earned money to the booming security business (dark car windows, armored vehicles, private guards etc).<\/p>\n

Many also talked about the deadly cocktail created by widespread anger, fueled by the city\u2019s blatant inequality, mixed with a mentality that “gun equals power”. As a result, those with the most weapons – i.e. the drug traffickers – are looked up to by youngsters in the Favelas.<\/p>\n

As a result of absence of other role models, a severe lack of educational and professional opportunities the drug lords often offer the most attractive career path. Adding to the circle of violence.<\/p>\n

And there are so many other stories. I can\u2019t wait to receive the treatments from Rio. This will be powerful stuff! Our biggest challenge will be to select the excellent from the great.<\/p>\n

If you want to participate check out the video below on how to develop your story and visit www.shootingpoverty.org <\/a>for all other details.<\/p>\n

“Your Story – Preparing to Write a Treatment<\/a>”<\/p>\n

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The Story – Preparing to Write Your Treatment<\/a> from ShootingPoverty<\/a> on Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For latest news on Shooting Poverty follow us on Twitter: http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/shootingpoverty <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00d8istein Thorsen, Oxfam Humanitarian Campaigner, is in Brazil for the launch of an exciting new film competition, \u2018Shooting Poverty\u2019. A city awash with arms and with a homicide rate higher than most of the world\u2019s conflict zones, Rio de Janeiro is suffering from a “culture of fear”. Affecting everyone. \u00a0 Shooting Poverty inside the Cantagalo […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6376,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-472620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6376"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}