When Brazil’s economic and social crisis deepened in 2015, students occupied more than a thousand public buildings and schools with the intention of gaining better public education and stopping budget cuts.
Like the Occupy Wall Street, the student movement uses direct democracy to decide everything, always voting for the students’ next steps together. #OpenLetterInteractive is an interactive documentary inspired by the use of this horizontal, non-hierarchical social organization. As in a student assembly, the audience decides by raising their hands and voting the next occupation, theme, or narrator. This way, it breaks with the logic of the director’s hierarchical cut. It’s intended as a social activity, with discussions following showings in schools. It would bring together people that do not have an equal voice in society; teachers, principals, and students would be side by side, with the same power to decide. This interactive film will also be available on an online platform.
