GOD'S TENANTS - Winner Best Documentary LABRFF (Los Angeles Brazilian Film Festival)
Channel: God's Tenants
Date: 2023-02-24

A Documentary About A Mother Searching
Written & Directed by Alfredo Avila & Edward Vela
Produced by Alfredo Avila, Yelyna De Leon, & Edward Vela

God’s Tenants documents the daily struggles of Nilza, a Brazilian single mother of 10 struggling to raise a family, and provide food for her children by working odd jobs at a time when unemployment is extremely high. Like many others in her community, Nilza and her children are forced to live in a squatter settlement near a landfill with no running water, formal electricity or infrastructure. To make things worse, Nilza’s 7 year-old-daughter, Sabrina, goes missing. It is then that Nilza fears that she has lost her daughter to the streets forever, as it is common for street children in Brazil to fall prey to the underground economy of prostitution, drugs and violence.