Company: Rafael Ignachiti
Country: BRAZIL , 76 min
Section: SPORT & SOCIETY
Discipline:Martial Arts
Director: Rafael Norton Ignachiti
Producer: Flávio Lordello
Time: 76 min
Synopsis
Rogério Camões was one of the first trainers for MMA in Brazil. Black and adopted by a middle-class white family in the 1960s, he discovered very early what racism it’s capable of. Martial arts got him out of the path of hate. Brazil has been the home of some greatest MMA fighters. But what is the way to be a star? Camões tells many impressive stories showing to the general public the transforming force that sport has in the journey of many young Brazilians, often being the only way out of a life of honor and glory. The hard routine told openly. The will to always rise after taking a knockdown.