São Paulo City Stories: Under the Overpass


Four people live at the boxing academy under the Alcântara Machado overpass in Mooca, São Paulo. Hundreds use the make-shift training facility each week. In the early morning hours, one of the city’s leading newspapers collates the daily papers for delivery. Initiated to improve the living conditions for local residents, the boxing academy has become a fixture for a cross-section of Paulistanos and the city itself.

Embaixo do viaduto Alcântara Machado, na Radial Leste, centenas de pessoas se reúnem todas as noites para treinar boxe.

Produced by Outros Filmes for the Urban Age South America Conference, São Paulo, 2008.

Documentário esenvolvido por Outros Filmes para a conferência internacional de urbanismo - Urban Age South America, sediada em São Paulo, 2008.