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In addition to its involvement in the film club movement, Cauim has always been active in various areas of Culture, Art, Education, and Citizenship. It also produces documentaries, TV programs, and other projects.<\/p>\n
In the mid-1980s, Cauim produced a documentary about the working and living conditions of the thousands of rural workers who migrated from northern Minas Gerais and the northeastern hinterland to cut sugarcane in the municipalities of the so-called "Brazilian California," the Ribeir\u00e3o Preto region. The film portrays the social and working conditions of this suffering population in the sugarcane fields that generated unparalleled wealth for the mills, distilleries, and agribusiness industries established there. But even today, this wealth remains unshared and extracted at the cost of the exhausting labor of the sugarcane cutters, sustained at the time by non-compliance with labor laws and the use of "gatos" (labor contractors), responsible for bringing these men and women to cut sugarcane. This situation generated a great revolt that culminated in the Guariba strike, which spread throughout the region and was brutally repressed by the State Police.<\/p>\n
\u201cB\u00f3ia Fria\u201d is an essential documentary for understanding the sociology of this period, which had as its backdrop the redemocratization of Brazil and the consequent struggle of rural workers for a dignified place in the new Brazilian social contract. It was a time that Tomz\u00e9 aptly defined in an interview: \u201cthe northeastern backwoodsman, when he comes to Sumpolo in search of work and food, doesn't just travel physically, hundreds, thousands of kilometers. He travels 400 years in history, like in a time machine. He leaves the Middle Ages in which he lives there in the backlands, to disembark in the modernity of the southern metropolises.\u201d.<\/p>\n
Watch \u201cB\u00f3ia-Fria\u201d. A documentary about sugarcane cutters in the Northeast of S\u00e3o Paulo state in the 1980s. Cauim Produ\u00e7\u00f5es Ribeir\u00e3o Preto \u2013 Directed by: Fernando Kaxassa, Photography: Fernando Sousa, Screenplay: Marcos Diamantino. Featured photo courtesy of \u2013 Central dos Trabalhadores e Trabalhadoras do Brasil (Central of Workers of Brazil).<\/p>\n