Independent Lens, Skin of Glass
PBS Western Reserve (WNEO 45.1 / WEAO 49.1):
Sunday, Feb. 23, at 11 PM
Fusion (WNEO 45.2 / WEAO 49.2):
Saturday, Feb. 22, at noon
A journey to reckon with Brazil’s harsh inequality begins when filmmaker Denise Zmekhol discovers her father’s architectural masterpiece in São Paulo — a 24-story tall modernist icon known as “Pele de Vidro” (Skin of Glass) — is inhabited by hundreds of unhoused people. But after getting to know these occupants, what started as a personal quest becomes something much bigger.
