

Brazil's underground comics scene: where passion beats profit and artists bleed ink.
Direction
Sakuma lets artists speak for themselves, no flashy intervention.
Production
Bare-bones filmmaking mirrors its subjects' resourcefulness.
Director
Jun Sakuma
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Brazil's independent comic scene operates in the shadow of Mauricio de Sousa's Monica empire, making these artists true cultural outliers fighting for shelf space.
Director Jun Sakuma—a Japanese-Brazilian filmmaker—brings an outsider-insider perspective that mirrors the artists' own liminal status in Brazilian culture.
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