‘Right now I want to scream!’: Using participatory film with communities in Haiti and Brazil in order to expose state violence and make connections across countries

We have produced two documentary films on the use of militarized violence in policing operations against marginalized communities in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. We use participatory practices as a methodology to collaborate with survivors of state violence as they tell their stories of violent raids, inadequate medical support, criminalization by the media, and exclusion by authorities in addressing the injustices inflicted by states. The connections between state violence in both countries, and working collaboratively over time with these communities, allows an investigation that offers sustainability in perspective and representation.