Xepa

In a Sao Paulo’s marketplace, Mrs. Edna shares her story and shows what it means to go to the “xepa”. In Brasil, as well as in other spots of Latin America, running under the logic of the free market, food is wasted at the same rate it is produced. Farmers markets, “tianguis” and other kind of markets still are places for distribution of fruits, vegetables and other kinds of food, transported long distances to allow big populations to have access. Nonetheless, a little is known about the marginalized, who are obliged to develop strategies of survival inside a quite unfair logic of division of the resources, exploited from our lands. Some people own the world and the others can only take possession of what is left.
This short documentary was filmed with a tablet and the audio recording was taken with a smartphone. If you have a story to tell, Do It Yourself.