Barrio de San Gens is the protagonist of two films that will be shown on Mexican public television

Film made by people from a Custóias neighbourhood on Mexican public TV

The films "Backyard in the Neighbourhood" and "Past, Present and Future" made by the population of the S. Gens neighbourhood, in Custóias, Matosinhos, will be shown on Canal Catorce, a Mexican public channel, as part of the XII Encuentro Hispanoamericano De Cine Documental: Contra El Silencio Todas Las Voces. "Quintal no Barrio" will be shown on November 7 at 5.45pm and "Passado, Presente y Futuro" will be shown on November 11 at 12.54pm.

In addition to these screenings on Mexican public television and also in the framework of Contra El Silencio Todas Las Voces, "Past, Present and Future" will be shown on 4 November at 12 noon in the José Revueltas Room of the Centro Cultural Universitario UNAM and "Backyard in the Neighbourhood" will be shown on 8 November at 1pm in the José Martí Cultural Centre and in the CDMX Pillars: on 9 November at 2pm in the San Francisco Tultenco Pillar and on 11 November at 3.50pm in the Candelaria Pillar. All the spaces are in Mexico City, the capital of this country.

These films were produced as part of the project "(Com) Vida S. Gens - Histórias del mi Barrio" of the Government's Healthy Neighbourhoods programme and financed by European funds from the Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR). This project ran until June 2022 and the population of the S. Gens neighbourhood made "A Mulher dos 3 M", "Baile", "Passado, Presente e Futuro", "Quintal no Bairro" and "Renato", 5 micro mobile documentaries (recorded with smartphones), under the guidance of André Almeida Rodrigues, an internationally awarded filmmaker from Matosinhos.

Besides the selections in "Contra El Silencio Todas Las Voces", the Honourable Mentions of "Quintal no Bairro" and "Passado, Presente e Futuro" in the JEFF - Jinju English Film Festival (South Korea) and the selections of "Quintal no Bairro" in the Silence, ça touille - Movie and Food Festival (France), "Baile" at JEFF - Jinju English Film Festival (South Korea) and "The Woman of the 3 M's", and "Baile" at Cinemaking International Film Festival (Bangladesh).

"(Com) Vida S. Gens - Histórias do meu Bairro" aimed to portray the sharing of memories, testimonies about life in the S. Gens Housing Estate in addition to establishing relationships between the residents of S. Gens, giving voice to local residents about the positive experiences in their Housing Estate and breaking prejudices and stigmatisation about experiences and representations of social actors living in territories classified as excluded territories.

The promoter of "(Com) Vida S. Gens - Histórias do meu Bairro" is the Grupo Desportivo Recreativo e Cultural Alto de Avilhó. The project's partner entities are the Parish Union of Custóias, Leça do Balio and Guifões, MatosinhosHabit and the Sports Group "Amigos da Pesca".

The Healthy Neighbourhoods Programme is a national programme, of a participative nature, to improve the conditions of health, well-being and quality of life in vulnerable territories. Health is not only the antonym of illness. This programme aims above all to give some power, in the sense of 'power to do', to resident communities and people or organisations that intervene in vulnerable territories. The Programme was created by the Resolution of the Council of Ministers 52-A/2020, of 1 July.