Cine Santa Teresa

Cine Santa Teresa held its first screening in Santa Teresa on June 23, 2003, showing the film “Deus é Brasileiro” by director Cacá Diegues. In almost thirteen years of operation, the cinema occupied, initially for two years, every Sunday, the Anglican Church in the neighborhood. It showed art films and donated part of the income obtained from tickets to social projects. With the resources, the church can make its pastoral function viable.

With the serious work carried out during this period, it established itself as a cultural, social and educational option, making its screen and program available to various communities, NGOs, schools and institutions.

There were hundreds of free and public exhibitions in the most varied spaces and times.

In partnership with educators and producers from Rio, it transformed the public/cinema relationship into a coexistence of socio-cultural growth. Santa Teresa, despite being a place where artistic manifestations proliferate, had never had a cinematographic project with this scope, frequency and seriousness. The results didn't take long to appear. Residents attended by the free exhibitions were awakened to the greatness of the seventh art and all its complexity. Underprivileged children and young people were abducted by the magic of cinema and found themselves transformed into essence and sensitivity.