THE STORY.

SYNOPSIS
REMIX TO RIO is a one-hour Documentary that explores the mindset of today’s disadvantaged youth and the gap that has grown between those in need of support and those who can provide it. As at-risk youth in our communities reject the traditional modes of outreach aimed at them, we find a growing group of young people in need of support but without the ability to accept it in its current manifestation. Traveling with Canada’s most innovative youth outreach organization to the favelas of Rio de Janeiro we watch them test their outreach model on some of today’s most “unreachable” youth.

THE STORY
REMIX TO RIO follows Gavin Sheppard, Drex and the REMIX team as they travel to Rio De Janeiro and join forces with Sandro, an Ex-drug lord turned activist for community outreach NGO, IBISS.

We watch this unexpected partnership unfurl as they bring the REMIX model to Rio and construct a recording studio for disadvantaged youth in Sandro's Favela, Terra Econtrada (The Enchanted Land).

Gavin and crew also bring three of their brightest students to Rio. The HUTUZ Hip-Hop festival will be in full swing and will set the scene for the REMIX kids to test the skills they’ve been honing over the last 6 months.

Most of these kids have never traveled outside of Ontario, let alone over seas. The culture shock they experience and the perspectives they gain will be life changing.

Interviews with REMIX and IBISS Directors, HUTUZ Promoters and an EX-General from one of Rio’s most notorious gangs are interwoven with the kids’ journey to uncover the specific contexts of these young people’s problems and to provide solutions to disadvantaged youth scattered throughout the world.