TEAM
The team is made up of filmmakers, sociologists and anthropologists from Brazil and the UK. The collaboration of film and academia discipline came about after the More Earth Will Fall screening tour in 2018, where we partnered to organise workshops and post-screening debates in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. Realising the shared goals, ideas and values, and especially the aspects we had in common when it comes to working in the field, we came together to create BRUK Films. Our aim is to make films that contribute towards the conversation on positive social change in Brazil and worldwide. The different films and videos will have differently-suited platforms for distribution. Some may be best online, others in community screenings, others we believe can reach a wide, global audience.
TEAM MEMBERS
LEE MCKARKIEL
Filmaker/ Executive Producer
Lee Mckarkiel has over 15 years experience as a professional filmmaker, specialising as an editor in the independent, commercial and broadcasting filmmaking industry and the participatory media sector. He is the co-director & editor of the feature length documentary More Earth Will Fall and has worked on various short films and a feature length drama. Most recently, he edited the Bafta-winning Sitting in Limbo, as well as BBC series Killing Eve.
ANDY PORTER
Story and Edit Consultant
Andy Porter was founder member of Hi8us, where he developed a series of innovative and award-winning camcorder dramas for Channel 4, made with young people from across the UK. He was executive producer on Paul Morrison’s Oscar-nominated feature Solomon and Gaenor, and won the Kodak/BAFTA producer’s award for Yousaf Ali Khan’s short Skin Deep.
TATIANA SIMIONI
International Project Coordinator
Born in Brazil, Tatiana moved to London ten years ago. She has worked for London 2012, Rio 2016 and most recently the International Paralympic Committee in Bonn, Germany. Tatiana coordinated the Impact and Outreach tour in Brazil.
ANGELO MARTINS
Story Consultant and Content Creator
Research Associate at the School of Sociology, Politics & International Studies (SPAIS), University of Bristol. Member of the Migration Mobilities Bristol Research Institute (MMB). Co-editor of the on-line material of the journals Theory, Culture & Society and Body & Society. Regional editor of the Global Dialogue – International Sociological Association’s academic newsletter. Has conducted various academic projects relating to the labour market, Industrial Sociology, Mobility, Migration and Social Differentiation. Author of the books “Lives in Motion: Notebooks of an Immigrant in London” (Whyte Tracks, 2014) and “Moving Difference: Brazilians in London” (Routledge, 2019 forthcoming).
SAM LIEBMANN
Director and Project Coordinator
Sam has lived and worked for a total of a year inside Rocinha favela during the making of More Earth Will Fall. He speaks fluent Portuguese. He is a documentary maker focussed on social conflict, mainly in Brazil, Sierra Leone, and Israel and Palestine. His work from Sierra Leone includes Lady P and the Sex Worker Sisterhood (BBC Africa Eye) Standing Among The Living (BBC Africa Eye) and The Husband School (Al Jazeera Witness). He's currently making a feature documentary about global land grab for resources in Sierra Leone and how a team of local paralegals are fighting back.
GABRIEL FELTRAN
Brazil Content Creator
Gabriel Feltran is Professor of the Sociology Department at the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar); Researcher at the CEM and at the CEBRAP in São Paulo; Doctorate in Social Sciences at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), with a doctorate collaborative at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS). Gabriel’s work focusses on issues of marginalisation and crime and has many best-selling books on the subject including Irmões, about the PCC.
DANIEL HIRATA
Brazil Content Creator
Daniel Hirata, Ph.D. in sociology, professor of sociology at the Fluminense Federal University (UFF), he has extensive experience in research on informal and illegal markets (São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). He is currently researcher in the NECVU-UFRJ (Center for Studies on Citizenship, Conflict and Urban Violence - Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) and director of GENI-UFF (Center for the Study of New Illegalisms - Fluminense Federal University).