Open Source Cinema - An Open Source Documentary Film about Copyright

Brasil's population is a mashup of South American natives, European colonialists and African slaves. According to legend, when missionaries first tried to convert Brazillian natives, they accepted the Christian God - by eating the missionaries.

Oswald de Andrade reacted to Dadaism and Modernism in Europe by creating the Manifesto Antropófago, which declared that Brasil was a cannabalist society - and this history of appropriation was its defining characteristic. Andrade's philoshopy became known as Antropofagia

"I asked a man what was Right. He answered me that it was the assurance of the full exercise of possibilities. That man was called Galli Mathias. I ate him." - Oswald de Andrade

The most powerful expression of this cannibalism came in the form of Tropicalismo. A political protest music in reaction to the Brazillian military dictatorship, Gilberto Gil and Caetona Veluso mixed Rock and Roll and Samba to create Tropicalismo, which many credit with sewing the roots of protest that would topple the fascist regime.

40 years later, Gilberto Gil is the minister of culture under Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva ("Lula"), and has brought Tropicalismo into the halls of power. It was Gilberto Gil who became the first international musician to sign his songs to the Creative Commons project, and he has convinced the Brazillian government to go Open Source. All of the Brazillian governments computers, from the beauracrats to the military, run on Open Source software. And Gil's cultural ministry is advancing the idea of "Pontos de Cultura" - cultural centers that teach citizens how to use open source tools to spread Brazillian music around the world.

In these centers, we'll see how the third world is inheriting the 21st century - bypassing the tired arguments and debates of the 20th century - to remix the future.