The Slum Documentary Film Project

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A Brief History of Manila (Slum Documentary) from Prairie Grass Productions on Vimeo.

A brief History of Manila, and context for the Family Under the Bridge.

60,000 People. 1 Mile from Prairie Grass Productions on Vimeo.

60,000 people. 1 mile. This is life in one of the largest slums in Latin America.

La Limonada (The Lemonade) is the largest slum in Latin America outside of Brazil. 60,000 people are crammed into a steep ravine one-mile in length. Police do not enter and when there's a murder, gov't officials responsible for investigation refuse to go in. Our crew spent a week in La Limonada getting the stories of some of the residents. In this brief clip you'll meet a few of those people. Expanded stories will be woven into the slum documentary we are working on.

This simple video is made from photos taken on a recent trip to Manila to film the Alquino family. The family lives under a bridge in the greater Metro Manila area. We are filming three families on three continents as we explore this issue of slums. The Alquinos and their neighbors are real people, not just statistics.

The Triangle of Death from Prairie Grass Productions on Vimeo.

This is raw footage shot in the slum outside of Chinendega, Nicaragua. I shot it in 2000, years before the decision to produce a documentary on slums. The locals call this area the "Triangle of Death" because it's located between the city sewer, the city dump, and the city cemetery.

Go from outer space to the bridge on the outskirts of Metro Manila to see where one family lives in abject poverty. This family is part of the one billion that lives on a few bucks a day. This little clip uses footage from the ongoing Slum Documentary Film Project at slumdoc.com

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