Kelly Cyclone

• Company: Abrolhos Filmes

Project attributes

• Series
• Documentary (Series)
• Drama (Series)

Kelly Cyclone begins with a real and controversial figure but goes beyond biography: it uses Kelly’s trajectory to reveal structural issues in Brazilian peripheries, the criminalization of style, public judgment, repression of street culture and the erasure of those who dare to exist. Across four episodes, the series connects her story with artists and young people who face similar dilemmas when performing identity or occupying spaces of visibility. Between past and present, fashion and music, digital and peripheral, Kelly exposes cultural continuities that must be seen, understood and transformed. The series confronts a social dynamic in which being young and from the periphery can still cost a life.

Director: Luana Rocha
Writers: Leonardo Chagas and Luana Rocha
Producer: Andre Sobral