Third World Manager (Empresário do Terceiro Mundo)
2026 · Creative nonfiction · 66 min · director
A documentary film that considers media democracy activism and entrepreneurialism in Brazil through the story of Angelo Tupinambá, a community organizer in Belém do Pará who coordinates a web-based radio station called Idade Mídia – Comunicação para Cidadania.
Angelo Madson Tupinambá coordinates Idade Mídia, a community web radio in Belém do Pará. After we meet at a talk I give on speculative design, I become his business consultant and film the attempt to take the station to market. Shot in 2018 as my UC San Diego MFA thesis and finished eight years later. World premiere in the first Mostra Amazônia at the 8th Festival de Cinema da Amazônia – Olhar do Norte, Teatro Amazonas, Manaus, 25 September 2026. Coproduced with Angelo Madson Tupinambá, Ruli Moretti and Rodrigo Faustini.