Gastronomicfavela

The work is a video that showcases the Festival Favela Gastronômica, in Praça de Inhaúma, featuring interviews that reveal the leading role played by local residents and entrepreneurs. More than a space for leisure and entertainment, the festival has established itself as an important tool for celebrating the food culture of the favelas, strengthening the local economy and generating job and income opportunities. Events like this break down stigmas, showcase the creative and entrepreneurial power of the peripheries, and reinforce that gastronomy is also cultural expression, identity, and resistance. By celebrating the knowledge and flavors of Rio's favelas, the festival contributes to a fairer narrative, one that recognizes and values working-class territories as spaces for the production of knowledge, culture, and economic development.