The Silent Hecatomb: Pandemic in Rio’s Favelas

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Luís Costa

Luís Costa is a PhD candidate at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), where he studies Brazilian documentaries of the 1960s. He was a visiting scholar at Columbia University School of the Arts in 2019-2020.

Dossiers, Mediapolis on Coronavirus, no. 2, vol. 5June 16, 2020<January 22, 2023

The Silent Hecatomb: Pandemic in Rio’s Favelas

Luís Costa discusses the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on residents of the favelas in Rio's divided city.