SKIN OF GLASS
SKIN OF GLASS
SKIN OF GLASS
SKIN OF GLASS
A journey to reckon with Brazil’s harsh inequality begins when the filmmaker discovers her father’s architectural masterpiece is occupied by homeless people

SKIN OF GLASS

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AUDIENCE FAVORITE AWARD - ¡Viva el Cine! - Mill Valley Film Festival | BEST FEATURE -Barcelona International Architecture Film Festival | BEST FEATURE - Milan Design Film Festival | FINALIST - Venice Architecture Film Festival

Art, Architecture & Urban Planning • Housing Activism • Human Rights • Latin American Studies • Brazilian Studies • Family Story


Date of Completion: 2023 | Run Time: 90 minutes​​ | Language: Portuguese, English & French | Captions: Yes | Includes: Transcript | Producer & Director: Denise Zmekhol | Written by: Denise Zmekhol, Ellen Bruno & Josh Peterson | Edited by: Josh Peterson | Co-Producers: Leah Mahan, Amir Soltani, Richard O'Connell & Nathalie Seaver

A poetic and personal cinematic meditation on displacement and loss, SKIN OF GLASS follows filmmaker Denise Zmekhol’s journey after discovering that her late father's most celebrated work as an architect, a modernist glass skyscraper in the heart of São Paulo, Brazil, has become occupied by hundreds of homeless families. In the wake of a shocking tragedy, Zmekhol connects with the residents of the building seeking to understand how São Paulo’s most vulnerable found shelter within a modernist icon from Brazil’s golden age of architecture. Delicately interweaving the personal and political, SKIN OF GLASS is a profound and moving reflection of the country’s own evolution during eras of darkness, transformation, and rebirth.

DENISE ZMEKHOL is a Syrian-Brazilian journalist, an award-winning producer and director of documentary and media projects that span the globe. Her work has been recognized for their elegant visual style and deft storytelling. As director/producer of SKIN OF GLASS, Denise Zmekhol was the recipient of ITVS, the National Endowment for the Arts, IDA Enterprise Documentary Fund, Latino Public Broadcasting, the Berkeley Film Foundation Al Bendich Award and several private foundations. In 2019, Zmekhol was included in a list of 15 Bay Area Filmmakers to Watch. She presented the story of SKIN OF GLASS at the Pop-Up Magazine tour in seven cities along with women from around the world at the TEDWomen BOLD + BRILLIANT conference. Zmekhol received a BAVC Media Fellowship, attended the Logan Nonfiction Program and was invited to participate at DOC NYC Only in New York industry meetings.