Border of fear

A feature on policing in ghettoized neighbourhoods, the people who live there and the police who work out there, started in 2018.

Soundtrack

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We already have:

+200

audio recordings

4

years of investigations

60

original soundtracks

30

illustrations

We are now:

Editing text of episodes 13 e 14
Performing fact checking for the episode 13
Mixing the soundtrack for the series
Awaiting court decisions about access to public security force documents on Sensitive Urban Zones
Updating statistics using freedom of information requests to public bodies
Developing the page for episode 9 on the website
Editing episode 5 website text
Writing episodes 8, 9, 10 and 11 for the website
Revising the website text for episodes 1, 2, 3, 6 and 7 and translating into English
Preparing our communications strategy and materials

While you wait for the launch, take a look and listen to published work that led us to embark on this investigation and that will form part of the series:

“Chelas nha Kau” Documentary

Between 2015 and 2020, the Divergente team led a multimedia workshop with young people from the Zona J social housing project in Chelas, Lisbon. The network of trust established during those years meant that, when we embarked on this feature, we had direct access to many of the people who we interview here. A documentary born of one group of friends’ desire to tell their story and that of their neighbourhood, produced by Bataclan 1950 and the Bagabaga Studios cooperative, home to Divergente.
See the whole film here.

Fumaça Interviews

18 August 2022 Alex S. Vitale on the end of policing

15 July 2021 Maria João Vaz on the origins of the police

20 May 2021 Vítor Sanches on police violence in Cova da Moura

29 June 2023 Alberto Torres and Cristiano Correia on the history of unionism in the Public Security Policy