Independent Lens
Skin of Glass
By Denise Zmekhol. A co-production of Denise Zmekhol dba ZDFILMS and Independent Television Service in association with Latino Public Broadcasting, Interfaze Educational Productions, Inc and PBS.
Season 26
Episode 12
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.
